Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary is the latest in the Collegiate line of Merriam-Webster dictionaries, which began in 1898. Every entry and feature of the last edition has been reexamined so that this Collegiate offers the dictionary user much that is new and useful while preserving the best features of proceeding editions. This dictionary is meant to serve the general public as its chief source of information about the words of our laguange. The school or college student, the office worker, the home user- all will find this Collegiate a reliable guide to understanding the English of our day and communicating in it.