Harrap's Shorter French Dictionary
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Harrap's Shorter French Dictionary, published by Chambers Harrap Publishers
, is one of the best known English/French bilingual dictionaries in the United Kingdom
and France
. The eighth edition was published in April 2007. http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/harrap/catalogue/0245607277.php In the United States
it is sold under the title Harrap's French and English College Dictionary.
The Shorter is a single-volume dictionary which began life as an abridgement of the French Standard (now Harrap's Unabridged French Dictionary, now online at Harrap's Online, sold in two volumes and last revised in March 2007 http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/harrap/catalogue/0245606610.php).
The first edition of the Shorter was published in two volumes, the French-English book in 1940 and the English-French four years later. Revised editions were published in 1967, 1982, 1991, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2007. In 2009 a new edition was published under the title Chambers French Dictionary.
Rival works include the Collins-Robert French Dictionary
and the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary
.
Chambers Harrap
Chambers Harrap Publishers is a reference publisher formerly based in Edinburgh, Scotland, which held the property rights of the venerable W.R.Chambers Publishers and its competitor George G. Harrap and Company .-History of Chambers:Chambers was founded as "W. & R...
, is one of the best known English/French bilingual dictionaries in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. The eighth edition was published in April 2007. http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/harrap/catalogue/0245607277.php In the United States
United States
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it is sold under the title Harrap's French and English College Dictionary.
The Shorter is a single-volume dictionary which began life as an abridgement of the French Standard (now Harrap's Unabridged French Dictionary, now online at Harrap's Online, sold in two volumes and last revised in March 2007 http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/harrap/catalogue/0245606610.php).
The first edition of the Shorter was published in two volumes, the French-English book in 1940 and the English-French four years later. Revised editions were published in 1967, 1982, 1991, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2007. In 2009 a new edition was published under the title Chambers French Dictionary.
Rival works include the Collins-Robert French Dictionary
Collins-Robert French Dictionary
The Collins-Robert French Dictionary is a bilingual dictionary of English and French derived from the Collins Word Web, an analytical linguistics database...
and the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary
Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English English-French
The Oxford-Hachette French–English/English–French Dictionary is one of the most comprehensive and recent bilingual French–English/English–French dictionaries. It was the first such dictionary to be written using a computerized corpus and it contains 555,000 translations as well as 360,000 words and...
.