This volume represents the most comprehensive English-Welsh dictionary ever compiled. It opens up the immense resources of a language which not only carries a rich cultural heritage but is changing and adapting to meet increasing use in public administration, the media, education and commercial life.
This dictionary is indispensable for learners and first-language speakers of Welsh alike.
- Over 1750 pages
- Synonyms
- Illustrative quotations
- Idioms
- Accentuations
- Specialist and technical terms
- Regional variants
- Literary and colloquial registers
- Place-names and personal names
The University of Wales, Bangor, provided a home for the Welsh Academy's Dictionary Project. The Editor, Dr Bruce Griffiths, teaches in the Department of Modern Languages of that institution, and Mr Dafydd Glyn Jones, the Associate Editor, in the Department of Welsh.
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