Coverage of the Contemporary French and English

The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary offers a complete guide to the French and English languages, from general to specialist and technical terminology, from foreign language to slang. The dictionary makes accessible every aspect of the French-speaking world of today, and respectively the English-speaking one, through meticulous description of their languages and their cultural institutions.

Convenience and Easy-access Layout

• Authoritative coverage of over 175,000 words and phrases, and over 270,000 translations
• In-text notes on points of usage, grammar and constructions
• In-text cultural notes on life in the French-speaking world
• Aid sections helping in understanding idiomatic phrases, compound nouns, and abbreviations
• Completely updated to include the very latest vocabulary
• Easy-access design of the word definitions

The MSDict Dictionary Format

The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary is here presented in MSDict electronic format. MSDict offers best experience in mobile reference and is available for any handheld platform.

• Quick dynamic search of words while you type
• Transcriptions facilitating pronunciation
• Hyperlinks between different related words
• Dynamic changing of font sizes
• Learning features
• Wildcard filtration feature (the use of "?" replaces a letter and "*" replaces a group of letters within words)
• Button allowing quick erase of the query field
• Support of multiple dictionaries installed at a time