Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary - Seventh Edition
Size: 441 MB
Description:
This is the world’s bestselling advanced learner’s dictionary, recommended by learners of English and their teachers, and used by 30 million people.
NEW 32-page Oxford 3000? Vocabulary Trainer, only available with the Paperback and CD-ROM edition.
Key features
* 183,500 British and American words, phrases, and meanings, plus 85,000 examples showing how words are used.
* 20,000 word origins explained on the COMPASS CD-ROM
* Over 200,000 extra example sentences on the COMPASS CD-ROM.
* 2,000 new words and meanings from British and American English, such as offshoring, life coach, sex up, wi-fi.
* 5,000 study words used in the sciences, maths, computing, literature, and business.
* 700 entries for words from Australia, Canada, East Africa, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and West Africa.
* Oxford 3000?: identifies the 3,000 keywords students need to know.
* Special entries for words on the Oxford 3000 list, with extra information on synonyms and collocations, and extra examples to extend vocabulary.
* 7,000 synonyms and opposites shown.
* 200 special synonym notes covering 1,200 synonyms.
* Illustrations and photographs explain 2000+ words.
* Labelled illustrations show related vocabulary.
* 32 colour pages illustrate groups of words such as extreme sports, music, etc.
* Colour maps - much appreciated by teachers and students.
* 2,600 encyclopedic entries to explain references such as Walter Mitty, Fort Knox, Marie Celeste, Peter Pan, Beacon Hill.
* Over 10,000 entries on every aspect of British and American culture on the COMPASS CD-ROM.
* NEW Oxford 3000? Vocabulary Trainer shows students how to exploit the keyword entries and provides practical activities that help build vocabulary and prepare for exams such as CAE and TOEIC®.
Authoritative and up to date, this eleventh edition of the “Concise Oxford English Dictionary on Windows CD-ROM” contains over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including all the latest new words. It offers rich vocabulary coverage, with full treatment of World English, rare, historical, and archaic terms, as well as scientific and technical vocabulary, and provides hundreds of helpful notes on grammar and usage. This electronic version of the dictionary offers full-text search functionality, instant look-up from Windows[registered] documents, including email and the Web, high-quality spoken pronunciations for thousands of words, and interactive educational word games, making it ideal for family, school, or office use. New to this edition is a fascinating Word Histories feature, telling the often bizarre stories of the origins and development of hundreds of words. For example, did you know that the word grammar is related to glamour, or that cockney used to mean a spoilt child? This dictionary also contains full appendices on topics such as alphabets, currencies, electronic English, and the registers of language, from formal to slang, plus a useful Guide to Good English with advice on grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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