The dictionary that really teaches English. Millions of students around the world have inproved 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
- New Easy-to-understand definitions, written within a defining vocabulary of 3500 words
- New 16 language study pages, full of practical help explaning how English works and how to benefit most from the dictionary
- New 8 pages of geographical maps
- New 8 pages of varied and useful cultural information
An up to date picture of today's English
- New 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
- The Dictionary
- Language study pages A
- Language study pages B
- Maps and geographical information
- Cultural information
- Appendices