The Big Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language. In 2 Volumes

Lev Ivanovich Skvortsov — Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Linguist and Lexicographer, author of popular science and educational manuals on the culture of Russian speech. This edition is a two-volume dictionary of a new linguistic-encyclopedic type. The dictionary combines linguistic... descriptions (explanations of words and expressions) and historical-encyclopedic, terminological, and everyday explanations of the realities themselves — things, phenomena, and events behind the facts of the language. The dictionary entry indicates stress and, in difficult cases, pronunciation, provides grammatical forms, stylistic characteristics, usage examples, and widely reveals phraseological features. The dictionary is aimed at a wide range of readers and will be useful for anyone interested in the Russian language and culture of Russia, who seeks to improve their speech culture and expand their knowledge of their native language. The two-volume dictionary includes 100,000 words, derived words and forms, stable expressions, and phraseological units. Special edition for the 'Word of the Year' project.