Book excerpt: A bilingual dictionary with more than 27,000 words and enriched with illustrations. The compact size makes it handy to use anywhere. Designed to meet everyone's linguistic needs. One can easily find words in a personal or professional terminological field. The type of user the dictionary appeals to constituted the criterion for the choice of its content. It presents technical terms which are needed to convey the chosen language to the contemporary world. The Compact series of dictionaries encompasses the following languages: Greek-English, Greek-French, Greek-Italian, Greek-Spanish, Greek-German,