This reference work aims to provide in a single volume a comprehensive dictionary of current English and all the information of a concise world encyclopaedia. Its features include over 200,000 dictionary definitions and 10,000 encyclopaedic articles covering current affairs, science and technology, history, people and places, sport and the arts. There is also a chronology of world events from the Palaeolithic age to the reunification of Germany in 1990, up-to-date coverage of new words and phrases in the English language, and numerous articles on people, organizations and concepts which are of contemporary interest.