The Cambridge French-English Thesaurus [Paperback]

An invaluable book for English-speaking learners and users of French.This is the first ever bilingual thesaurus of its kind. The book is aimed at all English-speaking learners and users of French at an intermediate to advanced level. It is arranged thematically rather than alphabetically, and under each theme learners will find synonyms and related French words and phrases for writing or speaking about the theme, as well as sayings, metaphors, proverbs and famous quotations. Every word, phrase and example has an English translation. Two alphabetical indexes of more than 8,000 words each enable easy access to the book.This is the first ever bilingual thesaurus of its kind. The book is aimed at all English-speaking learners and users of French at an intermediate to advanced level. It is arranged thematically rather than alphabetically, and under each theme learners will find synonyms and related French words and phrases for writing or speaking about the theme, as well as sayings, metaphors, proverbs and famous quotations. Every word, phrase and example has an English translation. Two alphabetical indexes of more than 8,000 words each enable easy access to the book.This highly useful bilingual thesaurus is aimed at all English-speaking learners and users of French at intermediate and more advanced levels. Structured in a uniquely helpful way, it is arranged thematically, with extensive subdivisions into topic categories. Two alphabetical indexes of more than 8,000 words each, one listing English vocabulary and the other French, help readers find what they're looking for easily. This is the best bilingual thesaurus available Like the best thesauri, it gives not only analogous words but analogous phrases and expressions as well; moreover it explains in what contexts the different synonyms should be used. Contains a wealth of information Let's say you want to look up the French for the word difficult. You may know that this translates into French as difficile but l3!