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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.
It has more words and more help with British and American English than any other advanced learner's dictionary.
It is the only advanced learner's dictionary to list the most important words yon need to know in English: the Oxford 3000TM.
It has the Compos CD-ROM which gives yon:
• Everything that's in this 7th edition
• The Oxford Learner's Wordfinder Dictionary and the Oxford Guide to British
and American Culture
• Information on 20,000 word origins
What you'll find in this 7th edition
• 183,500 British and American words, phrases and meanings
• 85,000 example sentences
• 2,000 new words (bird flu, life coach, offshoring)
• 7,000 synonyms and opposites
• 5,000 study words from the sciences, literature, computing and business
• 700 World English words (stickybeok, godown, indaba)
• 2,600 cultural words (Walter Mitty, Forth Bridge, Capitol Hill)
• 2,000 words illustrated
• 24 pages of colour illustrations
• 96 study pages (essay writing, emails, quick grammar reference)
This dictionary is based on the British National Corpus, the Oxford Corpus Collection and the Oxford Reading Programme for language research.
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Contents
• Abbreviations, symbols and labels used in the dictionary
• Key to verb patterns
• Foreword
• Key to dictionary entries
• Numbers and symbols
• The Dictionary
Colour Topic Pages
R1 - Cars
R2 - Boats
R4 - Computing
R6 - Musical instruments
R8 - Aircraft
R9 - Buildings
R10 - Cooking
R12 - Fruit and vegetables
R14 - Clothes
R16 - Homes
R17 - Houses
R18 - Health
R20 - The animal kingdom
R22 - Sports
R24 - Extreme sports
Reference Section
R26 - Grammar
R50 - Study pages
R58 - Other reference
R97 - The Oxford 3000
R116 - Pronunciation and phonetic symbols in the dictionary
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Author Deatils
A.S. Hornby
Chief Editor – Sally Wehmeier
Editors – Colin Mclntosh, Joanna Turnbull
Phonetics Editor – Michael Ashby
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