Millions of students around the world have improved their written and spoken English using the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. This exciting new edition will help you:
• write and speak better English
• understand more easily and more quickly
• avoid common mistakes
• learn more effectively.
More information, easier to use.
Easy-to-understand definitions, written within a defining vocabulary of 3 500 words.
16 language study pages, full of practical help explaining how English works and how to benefit most from the dictionary.
8 full-colour pages of geographical maps.
8 full-colour pages of varied and useful cultural information.
An up-to-date picture of today's English.
The information in the new edition is fully up to date and accurate thanks to oxford's outstanding language research programme. This includes:
* the 100 million-word British National Corpus
* the 40 million-word Oxford American English Corpus
* the Oxford English Dictionary research programme.
Packed with examples.
This dictionary contains over 90 000 corpus-based examples designed to help you use English words and phrases correctly and appropriately. There are also hundreds of notes, pictures and explanations to make learning easier.