Which dictionary & thesaurus?

[BlueBerry]

Hello all,

I posted this request on the verbal reasoning forum but didn't he any replies so
I'm posting it here now.

We've got the Collins primary dictionary & thesaurus. My son is getting frustrated that most of the words that he needs to look up aren't in there. Can anyone recommend a good set please?

Thanks.

[yoyo123]

I quite like the Paperback Oxford one which is a dictionary and thesaurus combined. Not really a fan of primary dictionaries

[tropicmama]

My DS (10 years old) has been using the paperback Colour Oxford English Dictionary, which is brilliant and handy. However, because I only purchased the dictionary version, it doesn't have antonyms so he sometimes had to "Google" the antonyms of words

[semb]

We got the Paperback Oxford English Dictionary, and the Oxford Paperback Thesaurus as two separate books as I assumed between them they would cover more words than a combined dictionary/thesaurus. We found them to be excellent.

Indeed, across the whole time we were preparing for the 11plus there was only ever one word that we came across that wasn't in either - and that was because it was an American word.

[Sally-Anne]

If you search the word "thesaurus" on the forum, plenty of ideas come up.

[BlueBerry]

Thanks for your replies. I'll start googling your suggestions now.

Sally-Ann, I can't use the search function on my phone.

[Sally-Anne]

http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/forum/ ... mit=Search" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hope that helps ...

[BlueBerry]

That's fab, thanks so much.