Spme of the features that make the Little Dictionary the most useful and informative dictionary of its size :

- More than 34,000 words and phrases covering a broad range of contemporary English
- Short, precise definitions in straightforward
- language, using a minimum of special abbriviatins and symbols
- Separate, clear entries for derivatives abbriviations, and alternative spellings
- Senses of word ordered by frequency of use
- An attractive, uncluttered, aesy-to-read page
- Pronounciations given in the International Phanetic alphabet
- Special attention paid to the vocabulary of new technology
- Appendices on English usage, the countries of the world, and the units of the metric system