What differences are between the American Heritage Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language? [closed]

Question

What differences are between these two books:

• The American Heritage Dictionary
• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

? Are they both for etymology, similarly to Oxford English Dictionary, or just regular dictionaries, similarly to Oxford Dictionary of English?

I found them on Amazon.

Answer 1

Going by Amazon's descriptions:

• The American Heritage Dictionary: Fifth Edition is 70,000 entries and 960 pages, a "concise" version
• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition is 400,000 entries and 2,112 pages, which puts my use of the word "concise" to describe the other dictionary into perspective

It looks to me like the content of both might be the same other than the fact that a lot was cut between the two. Both contain illustrations/photographs, etymologies, synonyms, and antonyms. They are "regular" dictionaries just like NOAD/ODE (which you mention in the question).