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Supposes animals in a variety of situations, with joking results, such as "Suppose a polar bear had money. He'd put it in a snow bank!"

A major revision to the Fifth Edition of The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, the premier resource about words for people who seek to know more and find fresh perspectives. This dictionary presents the most up-to-date research about the words in our language in an accessible and elegant design. The landmark Fifth Edition, with 10,000 new words and senses, over 4,000 new full-color images, and comprehensive, up-to-date guidance on usage from the celebrated American Heritage® Usage Panel, is now updated for 2015 with more than 1,000 revisions, including nearly 100 new words and senses.

Practical and reliable, this reference traces English words back to their Indo-European roots. Each entry features a brief definition, identifies the language of origin, and employs a few illustrative quotations. An extensive appendix includes lists of prefixes, suffixes, Indo-European roots, homonyms and doublets, and the distribution of English-language sources.

A detailed reference to the definitions, history and etymology of frequently-used primary words.

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