“Oxford Advanced Learner´s Dictionary of Current English”

This dictionary helps you: write and speak better English; understand more easily and more quickly; avoid common mistakes; learn more effectively.

Millions of students around the world have improved their written and spoken English using the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

More information, easier to use: easy-to-understand definitions, written within a defining vocabulary of 3500 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 90000 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.

63000 references – 65000 definitions – 90000 examples – 11600 idioms and phrases verbs – 220 usage notes – 1700 words illustrated – 10 appendices – 2800 new words and meanings.

Oxford University Press, 1995. 1428lk