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In The Oxford Spanish Dictionary, Oxford University Press is pleased to offer a major new bilingual reference for 1994. Based on an intensive research project lasting over eight years, The Oxford Spanish sets a new standard as one of the most authoritative--and useful--foreign language dictionaries available today.
For almost a decade, editors Beatriz Jarman and Roy Russell have led an outstanding team of Spanish and English lexicographers as they amassed the most inclusive and up-to-date Spanish dictionary ever published. They have painstakingly investigated vocabulary, meanings, and grammatical information, providing a work of unprecedented scope that reflects how both languages are spoken and written in all contexts--from literature to informal speech to technical publications. Drawing on expertise from the United States, Latin America, Great Britain, and Spain, the dictionary offers a truly comprehensive lexicon--useful from Kansas City to Caracas, from Manchester to Madrid, from San Francisco to San Juan.
The Oxford Spanish Dictionary offers the highest standards:

DL More than 250,000 words and phrases
DL Over 430,000 translations
DL Thousands of sample sentences to illustrate meaning and usage
DL Special emphasis on idioms and regional usage
DL Extensive glosses for easy identification of senses, style
levels, and regional expressions
DL Thoroughly up-to-date coverage, ranging from ethnic cleansing to reforestar
DL Extensive treatment of scientific and technical vocabulary
DL More than 100 pages of helpful appendices

With far-reaching, thoroughly up-to-date coverage and extensive guidance on thorny issues of grammar and usage, The Oxford Spanish Dictionary provides the finest reference of its type avaiable today.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Just as certain innocuous American expressions, like "fanny pack," should never be used in London, certain Spanish words, like "coger," are perfectly acceptable in Madrid and perfectly vulgar in Buenos Aires. So when picking a Spanish-English dictionary, it's important to choose one that clearly indentifies variations in regional usage. The three titles reviewed here all have a comprehensive, unabridged range of entries, which include cross-referencing and phonetic spellings and definitions that range in length from three lines to two pages. They all provide a thorough summary of Spanish and English grammar, with tables of irregular verbs. Most importantly, they all handle issues of usage with clarity and sensitivity. Of the trio, the Larousse is the best known. It's certainly the most exhaustive reference on idiomatic and technical expressions. The Larousse consistently distinguishes between Latin American and Peninsular usage, though its definitions do lean towards Spain and Britain. Its translation of ch?vere, for example, as "brilliant" might lead some American readers to believe the word connotes a degree of intelligence, when, in fact, its meaning is closer to "super" or "fantastic." In a particularly notable gaffe, the Larousse's entry on ba?o doesn't contain the word "bathroom" though that's how the word is used most often in Latin America because in Spain the term for "restrooms" is los servicios. The Oxford does a better job of distinguishing between British and American diction (its entry on ba?o goes so far as to outline the distinctions among "bathroom," "lavatory," "loo," and "washroom"), and its explanations of the language variations within Latin America are more specific than the Larousse's. Guagua, it lets you know, is an informal word for "baby" in the Andes region and a slang term for "bus" in Cuba and the Canary Islands. (The Larousse groups both these meanings under the more general heading "American usage.") The Oxford also contains useful boxes that cluster words by topic (colors, the human body, etc.), as well as a glossary explaining cultural terms that don't have simple translations, such as "Mason-Dixon Line" and sobremesa (the time spent drinking and talking around a table after a meal is finished). Like the Oxford, the Harper Collins dictionary contains notes on cultural topics, and it also provides country-specific guidelines for usage in Latin America. Though its layout is the least elegant of the three, the Harper Collins provides the strongest coverage of Latin American slang. For example, it's the only dictionary we reviewed that gave all the various meanings of perico, a curious word that, depending on the context and location, can mean parakeet, toupee, cocaine, milky coffee, or scrambled eggs with fried onions. Such impressive thoroughness has made the Harper Collins dictionary a favorite among academics specializing in Latin American studies. The Harper Collins dictionary also goes a step further than grammar review with its "Language in Use" section, which presents a painstaking introduction to business writing style in both English and Spanish. This section, which helps readers find equivalents for such hard-to-translate expressions as Me he enterado con gran tristeza de la muerte de tu..." for "I was very sad to learn of the death of...," teaches users how to phrase a job application letter, how to pronounce an e-mail address, and how to draft an official apology, among other business necessities. A good Spanish-English dictionary should help readers navigate complex regional differences. All these dictionaries do this quite well, but the Harper Collins should be the first choice among libraries. Larger libraries would do well to offset the Harper Collins's deficiencies in Cervantes-style Spanish by purchasing a copy of the Larousse as well, and those seriously interested in linguistic variations may want to add the Oxford, which does the best job charting the differences between British and American English. Marcela Valdis, "Criticas". (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

School Library Journal Review

Gr 7 Up-When the Oxford University Press produced the expanded second edition of its Spanish dictionary in 2001, it was broadened to include 275,000 words and phrases and contained 450,000 translations. The hefty tome covered both European and Mexican Spanish. This edition expands the second by 25,000 words (about half on each side of the dictionary) and 50,000 translations. To catch contemporary words and usages, a combination of Web-based technology and vetting by native speakers was employed, resulting in the addition of technological and business vocabulary, as well as slang and buzz words. Covering all 24 varieties of regional Spanish, the dictionary also sports a new layout, with words in blue and definitions in a clean, though small, black type. Cultural notes as well as boxes containing information on grammar and usage-such as phrasal verb forms-extend the coverage of the work. Clear definitions, both in English and in Spanish, are backed up by a text-to-speech CD-ROM that allows users to hear any word or phrase pronounced in either European or Mexican Spanish. Collections with the second edition of the Oxford or with other unabridged dictionaries such as the Collins Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary (HarperCollins, 1997) may not need to add the third Oxford. However, given the comprehensive coverage, it is worth consideration for most libraries.-Ann Welton, Grant Elementary School, Tacoma, WA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

This edition, a major update of that immediately preceding (2001), includes 20,000 new headwords, including "text messaging" and "zip drive." It comes with a "SpeakSpanish" CD-ROM, which pronounces words or phrases in Spanish after they are typed. This innovative work used not only editors and informants, but also sophisticated filters to search the Internet for new words and terms not used in previous editions. A completely new design, intuitive and easy to use, includes hundreds of cultural notes supplying guidance on grammar and usage. The dictionary covers 24 varieties of Spanish from many regions of the world. Notes on differing usage between American and British English are also included. A very large volume, not intended to be read on the run, but very useful for serious students of either language. ^BSumming Up: Essential. All libraries. M. S. Brown-Sica University of Colorado at Denver

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About the Editors:
Beatriz Galimberti Jarman and Roy Russell are expert bilingual lexicographers who have led a team of Spanish, Latin American, British, and American editors throughout the project.