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Beautiful Words - A Celebration for Word Lovers

English · Hardback

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Beautiful Words explores the beauty and intrigue of the English language through this collection of the most fascinating words in the English language!

Close your eyes for a moment and think of the word "solitude". What do you see? A deer drinking from a still pond in the middle of a quiet forest on a sunny day? A small cabin nestled in a group of trees with a warm fire burning in the hearth inside? Sounds nice, doesn't it? Try doing the same with the word "felicity", or "ephemeral". There are so many words in the English language that evoke vivid imagery simply in their pondering. Beautiful Words takes the most beautiful of these words and phrases and actualizes this vivid imagery that they conjure.

In addition to illustrations that perfectly capture the essence of these interesting words, this book will contain examples of beautiful and interesting ways in which they can be used, whether in short poems or brief stories. In addition to "solitude", "felicity", "ephemeral", "epiphany", and "serendipity", other featured words include:

- Iredescent
- Miraculous
- Mellifluous
- Demure
- Languor
- Sanguine

And many more! A lovely, winding exploration of the things we say, Beautiful Words will make the perfect gift for anyone in your life who loves language.

Summary

Explore the beauty and intrigue of the English language through this collection of the most fascinating words in the dictionary.
Close your eyes for a moment and think of the word “solitude”. What do you see? A deer drinking from a still pond in the middle of a quiet forest on a sunny day? A small cabin nestled in a group of trees with a warm fire burning in the hearth inside? Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Try doing the same with the word “felicity”, or “ephemeral”. There are so many words in the English language that evoke vivid imagery simply in their pondering. Beautiful Words takes the most beautiful of these words and phrases and actualizes this vivid imagery that they conjure. In addition to illustrations that perfectly capture the essence of these interesting words, this book will contain examples of beautiful and interesting ways in which they can be used, whether in short poems or brief stories.
In addition to “solitude”, “felicity”, “ephemeral”, “epiphany”, and “serendipity”, other featured words include:

  • Iridescent
  • Miraculous
  • Mellifluous
  • Demure
  • Languor
  • Sanguine
  • And many more!
A lovely, winding exploration of the things we say, Beautiful Words will make the perfect gift for anyone in your life who loves language.

Product details

Authors Cider Mill Press, Editors of Whalen Book Works
Publisher Harper Collins (US)
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 26.12.2023
 
EAN 9781951511548
ISBN 978-1-951511-54-8
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 157 mm x 211 mm x 24 mm
Weight 498 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, REFERENCE / Trivia, REFERENCE / Word Lists

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