First Children's Dictionary

258 Pages·2016·38.2 MB·english

by  DK

First Children’s
Dictionary
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Senior editor Marie Greenwood
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Editors Jolyon Goddard, Olivia Stanford
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US editor Rebecca Warren
DTP designer Bimlesh Tiwary
Managing editors Laura Gilbert, Alka Thakur Hazarika
Managing art editors Diane Peyton Jones, Romi Chakraborty
CTS manager Balwant Singh
Senior producer, pre-production Nadine King
Producer Srijana Gurung
Publisher Sarah Larter
Publishing director Sophie Mitchell
Jacket editor Ishani Nandi
Jacket designer Dheeraj Arora
Art director Martin Wilson
Lexicographer and consultant Sheila Dignen
ORIGINAL EDITION
Lexicographer Sheila Dignen
Senior editor Elinor Greenwood
Senior art editor Janet Allis
Designers Mo Choy, Gill Shaw
Managing editors Mary Ling, Sue Leonard
Managing art editors Rachael Foster, Cathy Chesson
DTP designer Almudena Díaz
Picture research Sean Hunter
Production Jenny Jacoby
First American Edition, 2002
This edition published in the United States in 2016 by
DK Publishing, 345 Hudson Street, New York,
New York 10014
Copyright © 2002, 2016 Dorling Kindersley Limited
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Introduction b u tt
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First Children’s Dictionary is a stunning and
entertaining new word finder for young children.
An interactive dictionary Over 800 illustrations
First Children’s Dictionary provides a valuable The eye-catching color graphics and
and fascinating insight into the world of words. photographs bring the definitions to life.
The striking design and interactive features
stimulate children’s natural curiosity and More than just a dictionary
appetite for words. While First Children’s Dictionary acts as
a tool to look up spellings and meanings
Dictionary skills of words, there is more to it than that:
The clear design and layout help children ☛ Opposites—words with opposite meanings
to learn important dictionary skills. First that are formed by adding common prefixes, such
Children’s Dictionary helps to widen vocabulary as unhappy or dishonest, help children learn how
and improve spelling and grammar as well as to use these prefixes correctly.
develop children’s awareness of words. ☛ Spelling notes—warning notes are
included for words that sound the same
More than 4,000 entries but are spelled differently, e.g. pale/pail.
Each word is clearly defined with simple, ☛ Word collections—fun-filled
age-related vocabulary. The definitions are pages of words under one theme are
written in full sentences, making them easy valuable aids to creative writing.
to understand and help children learn how
to write correctly in sentences, using capital
letters and periods. Example sentences
illustrate use and meaning. s
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Contents h i
Dinosaur 60 Shape up! 180
Alphabetical order 4 Entertainment 71 Space 195
All about words 6 Food 83 Sport 196
More words 8 Ghosts and fantasy 89 Time 216
Using the dictionary 10 Growth 94 Transportation 221
Horse 102 Weather 238
c The dictionary 12-245 Insect 108
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r Night life 137 Spelling tips 246
Word collections At the park 145 Writing 248
Animal 17 To the rescue 168 Facts and figures 250
At the beach 27 Robots 171 Animal families 252
In the city 44 Map of the world 254
Costume 50 Acknowledgments 256
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Alphabetical order
Alphabetical order
To look up a word, you need to find where it belongs
among all the other words in the English language.
This is why a dictionary arranges words in
alphabetical order.
Get in order!
Here is the alphabet in the correct
order. Remember this, and using
a dictionary will be easy!
Putting words in order
To put words into alphabetical order,
you compare their first letters, then their
second letters, then their third, and so on.
For example, look at this list of animals.
1 Ant A is before C
Animal mixer 2 Cat Ca is before Cr
See if you can arrange these 3 Crab Cra is before Cre
animals in alphabetical order. 4 Creature Cre is before Cro
Look at the box on the right to 5 Crocodile Cr is before Cu
help you. (Answers on page 256) 6 Cub
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Alphabetical order
It’s nonsense!
Make sense of nonsense by putting
the letters of these mixed-up words into Silly sentence
alphabetical order. Here’s a clue, they Sort this nonsense sentence
are all things you can eat! Follow by putting the words
this example. (Answers on page 256) into the correct
alphabetical order.
(Answer on page 256)
apple
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All about words
All about words
To make a sentence we use different types
of words. Each word in a sentence has its
own name and its own job to do. s
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Nouns One or two? c s
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A noun is a word that names We use a singular noun
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a thing, a person, or a place. if there is only one of
Cat, teacher, spoon, and city something. We use a
are all nouns. plural noun if there is Singular Plural
more than one. We sock socks
A common noun names things, usually add -s or -es to dog dogs
people, or places in general. Carrot, make plural nouns. For box boxes
bird, friend, and school are all nouns that end in -y, we princess princesses
common nouns. change the -y to -ies. baby babies
family families
A proper noun names one
particular person or place. Proper
nouns begin with a capital letter.
Tom, New York, and France are
Curious plurals
all proper nouns.
A few nouns stay the Some nouns change .
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same in the singular completely in the plural. a
The days and months are also b
and the plural. For example:
proper nouns, so they begin with e
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capital letters, for example Monday, FOonr ee xsahmepelep:; three sheep OOnnee mmoauns; eth; rtweeo mmeince The boy ki c k s t
Tuesday, January, and February.
Adjectives T h is piglet is. Comparing things
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An adjective is a word that . To compare people or things, some
is used to describe a noun. adjectives can change. For example,
Big, yellow, sticky, and tall becomes taller or the tallest. t a ller
dark are all adjectives.
Some adjectives
An adjective can come do not change. t all
before a noun. Look at Instead, we use
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the big, yellow Sun. al y r more and the
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Or it can come after the the adjective to
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verb be. The Sun is big compare people This flower is
pink
and yellow. or things. beautiful.
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All about words
Verbs
A verb is sometimes called an action word because
it is a word that describes what a person or thing is
doing. Sit, think, sleep, sing, and climb are all
verbs. A sentence must contain a verb to make sense.
“Be” is also a verb. The parts of “be” are: I am,
you are, he is, she is, we are, they are.
For example: I am very tall.
Now and then
The tense of a verb shows when something
happens. Notice how the verb changes
according to which tense it is in.
If an action happens now, the verb is in the present tense.
The boy kicks the ball.
If the action is happening now and continues to happen,
the verb is in the present progressive tense.
The boy is kicking the ball.
If the action happened in the past, the verb is in the
past tense.
The boy kicked the ball.
If the action will happen in the future, we can use will
l. or “be” going to.
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The boy is going to kick the ball.
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by adding -ed to the verb.
t a ller We worked hard yesterday.
Some verbs have different past tenses.
t all Present Past
catch caught
do did
eat ate
This flower This flower is make made
is more the most see saw
beautiful. beautiful.
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More words
More words
Here are some more
Follow the adverbs...
examples of types of Follow the arrows linking the verbs to the adverbs.
words and how they
run
loudly
are used in sentences.
throw
merrily
Adverbs
An adverb is a word that gives
more information about a verb.
snore
far
She opened the present quickly.
A lot of adverbs end with the laugh
quickly
letters -ly. Quickly, slowly, sadly,
and noisily are all adverbs.
Adverbs can also tell us when
something happens.
I always do my homework.
We’ll get home soon.
Prepositions a n ha
Ano purne. pIto soifttieonn s huosuwasl lwyh ceorme seos mbeeftohrine ga cat under the b a s k e t Yo u c ve a n apple o r an ora
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in front of chair legs
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