Parker Philip M. (ed.) Webster’s Croatian - English Thesaurus Dictionary

Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc.
Publication date: 2008
Number of pages: 685
ISBN: 0-497-83476-6If you are learning Croatian, this book was not created for you, and you should not purchase it. It was created for completely fluent mother-tongue speakers of Croatian who already know the full meaning of Croatian words, but who need to learn how a single English translation of a Croatian word may have ambiguous meanings in the English language. It is designed for bi-lingual education for the non-English reader who wants to improve English-language test scores covering English synonyms. Synonyms may bear no relationship to a translation word (e.g. love can signify both an emotion and a score of zero in tennis; zero, while being a synonym of love, is likely to be a bad translation to the original Croatian headword). This is a regular English thesaurus, like Roget’s, but the entries are sorted alphabetically using headwords from Croatian. It cannot be used to translate between the two languages, but may help a fluent speaker of Croatian who is learning basic English, to learn the ambiguities of the English language and its vocabulary. The synonyms for each headword are not translations; Croatian words are used to facilitate looking up English synonyms.