Landsden House -- Webster's American English Learning Dictionary

Author: Douglass
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Publish Date: 1998-05-01
Features: Using this dictionary can help you learn authentic American English. First, the main body of the dictionary and the learning methods presented here will help you expand your vocabulary and learn new words. At the same time, it can also help you understand other meanings of words you have already learned. Second, using this dictionary can also improve your reading comprehension. Because this dictionary summarizes prefixes, suffixes, and roots of words, you can use them to expand your vocabulary and effectively recognize unfamiliar words. This dictionary includes a large number of idioms and verb phrases, which must be memorized as a whole in English because their meanings differ once separated. When searching for entries in this dictionary, you will notice that idioms and verb phrases are printed in bold. This dictionary not only provides definitions of idioms and verb phrases but also offers important grammar explanations and example sentences. For example, the phrase "crackup" is one of the verb phrases that this dictionary teaches you to use. Additionally, the included words use two pronunciation systems.