Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Coverage of the Contemporary French and English

The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary offers a complete guide to the French and English languages, from general to specialist and technical terminology, from foreign language to slang. The dictionary makes accessible every aspect of the French-speaking world of today, and respectively the English-speaking one, through meticulous description of their languages and their cultural institutions.    Also available - Audio Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary, featuring the Oxford English audio database of 50,000 Oxford pre-recorded audio word pronunciations to help you improve your listening and speaking skills in English.

Convenience and Easy-access Layout

• Authoritative coverage of over 175,000 words and phrases, and over 270,000 translations
• In-text notes on points of usage, grammar and constructions
• In-text cultural notes on life in the French-speaking world
• Aid sections helping in understanding idiomatic phrases, compound nouns, and abbreviations
• Completely updated to include the very latest vocabulary
• Easy-access design of the word definitions

The MSDict Dictionary Format

The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary is here presented in MSDict electronic format. MSDict offers best experience in mobile reference and is available for any handheld platform.

• Quick dynamic search of words while you type
• Hyperlinks between different related words
• Handy custom filters added to help you locate the word you are searching for:
  • Fuzzy filter- used when you are not sure of the correct spelling of a word
  • Keyword- used to locate the instances of a key word within other compound words
  • Wild card - "?" and "*" replace a letter and group of letters in words
• Dynamic changing of font sizes
• History lists of visited words
• Support of multiple dictionaries installed at a time
• Fullscreen support
• Page scrolling mode added
• Ability to select and change the language for MSDict menus and messages. The supported languages are- English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Finish, Russian and Portuguese.
• Copy single words, selected paragraphs or whole word definitions in external programs on your phone
• Two different work modes- View and Selection for your convenience when browsing word definition