Based on the highly-acclaimed Oxford Spanish Dictionary, described by John Butt in the TLS as `indispensable for all serious Hispanists', this dictionary provides an authoritative, up-to-date guide to world Spanish. It is the only Concise Spanish dictionary to present the full wealth of Spanish from both sides of the Atlantic, with coverage of 24 varieties of Spanish as it is written and spoken throughout the Spanish-speaking world There are thousands of real, authentic example sentences carefully selected to illustrate the full range of meanings and typical contexts. It contains 170,000 words and phrases, and 240,000 translations, and is available in SGML and XML.