Oxford Concise School Dictionary

by Joyce M. Hawkins, Andrew Delahunty

Features cover with annotated extract to give guidance on level, suitability, and content with new text for the market-leading school dictionary range. * 40,000 words and phrases * Comprehensive coverage of new words eg. air bag, alternative energy * Information boxes give word families, usage, langauge and grammar notes * Word origins give history of language * Pronunciation guides help with unusual words eg. depot (say dep-oh), conscientious (say kon-she-en-shus) * Idiomatic phrases and expressions fully defined * Labels (formal/informal, in science fiction, in grammar) encourage accurate use of language * Up-to-date example sentences and phrases show how words are used in context * No confusing abbreviations * Introduction shows how to use the dictionary * Appendices include weights and measures and countries and peoples list

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First published February 28, 2002

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nos·tal·gia

\nä-ˈstal-jə, nə- also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl-\

noun

: pleasure and sadness that is caused by remembering something from the past and wishing that you could experience it again

Full Definition

2 : a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition; 
also : something that evokes nostalgia

nos·tal·gic \-jik\ adjective or noun
nos·tal·gi·cal·ly \-ji-k(ə-)lē\adverb
nos·tal·gist \-jist\ noun

Origin: New Latin, from Greeknostos return home + New Latin -algia; akin to Greek neisthai to return, Old English genesan to survive, Sanskrit nasate he approaches.

First use: 1756