DEFINITIONS
DEFINITIONS OF DEFINITIONSWHEN USING WORDS IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A VAGUE IDEA OF WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
THIS ESSAY HAS DIFFERENT
LANGUAGES TO CHOOSE FROM:
THE SIMPLEST WAY TO GET AN IDEA OF THE MEANING OF A WORD IS TO LOOK IT UP IN A DICTIONARY, ALWAYS BEARING IN MIND THAT THE WORDS IN THE DICTIONARY COULD BE VAGUE OR FAKE.
TO GET A MORE SOPHISTICATED IDEA OF THE MEANING OF WORDS WE MUST USE MORE SOPHISTICATED METHODS . . . AND RISK THAT ALL WE LEARN IS THAT MOST OF THE TIME WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT . . .
(FORTUNATELY MOST OF US DON’T KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD
KNOW . . . ).IN THIS WEBSITE CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO
EXPLORING THE MEANING OF WORDS .
NOW IT BEGINS
. . . MOST RELEVANT LINKS :A DEFINITION OF THE WORD DEFINITION
THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY : INTRODUCTION
THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY : DEFINITIONS
OTHER RELEVANT LINKS :