About the Book
Fully updated and with a brand new, user-friendly design, this edition is full of exciting new features to help learners become fluent in English, including cutting-edge software to build vocabulary faster.
The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English provides the ultimate active learning tool – and is now available in a format to suit everyone. Whether in print, on DVD-ROM, students can access the best language support whenever and wherever you want – simply no other learners’ dictionary compares.
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Over 230,000 words, phrases and meanings (more than any other advanced learner's dictionary)
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NEWtext and cover design
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NEWIntegrated Collocations Dictionary featuring over 65,000 collocations
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NEWIntegrated Thesaurus Dictionary featuring over 18,000 synonyms, antonyms and related words
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NEWRegister Notes focus on the differences between spoken and written English
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NEW Academic Word List highlighted
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100,000 example sentences
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3000 most frequent spoken and written words highlighted (Longman Communication 3000) – UNIQUE DVD-Rom
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NEW MAJOR SELLING POINTThe Longman Vocabulary Trainer [tests user’s knowledge of a word – its meaning, grammar, collocation and usage – then remembers how well they know that word and over the coming weeks and months, the word is recycled and retested at different intervals, depending on how well it is known. Users can also side-load LVR lists to their mobile phone]
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NEW A dictionary, a thesaurus and a collocations dictionary – now all on one DVD-ROM
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NEWSearchable database containing thousands of cultural entries
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NEWSearchable database containing thousands of collocations (65,000 from print dictionary + additional 16,000)
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NEWSearchable database containing thousands of synonyms (18,000 synonyms, antonyms and related words from print dictionary + additional 30,000)
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Full, searchable A-Z contents of the print dictionary – 230,000 words, phrases and meanings + an additional 40,000
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All words pronounced in British and American English – with self-record function
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88,000 examples pronounced in British and American English – with self-record function
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1 million additional corpus examples
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Thousands of interactive questions
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Includes Longman Language Activator® and the Longman Writing Assistant
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Downloadable Teacher resource bank
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