The dictionary that really teaches English
Millions of students around the world have improved their written and spoken English using the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. This 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 pages of geographical maps
• 8 pages of varied and useful cultural information
An up-to-date picture of today's English
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 90amples 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
• 63.000 references
• 65.000 definitions
• 90.000 examples
• 11:000 idioms and phrasal verbs
• 220 usage notes
• 1.700 words illustrated
• 10 appendices
• 2.800 new word