Collins COBUILD English Dictionary

Author: Sinclair
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This dictionary was meticulously compiled over more than ten years by the Dictionary Compilation Group of the University of Birmingham, UK, with the support of HarperCollins Publishers. The second edition of this dictionary, which was introduced and published by the publisher, is the result of a comprehensive revision of the version. Both the example sentences and example words are sourced from the COBUILD corpus. This dictionary includes over 75,000 entries, with more than 4,000 being newly added in recent years. Compiled by senior dictionary experts from the University of Birmingham, UK, this dictionary is designed for English teachers and learners at intermediate to advanced levels, offering a revolutionary new approach to understanding, learning, and teaching English. This dictionary is the culmination of a 15-year-long comprehensive analysis of spoken and written English, providing a clear and detailed description of modern English, aimed at helping users expand their vocabulary, enhance their confidence in using English, and continuously improve their spoken and written communication skills. It includes over 75,000 entries, with more than 4,000 new words and meanings. It features over 10,000 examples sourced from an English corpus for the first time. It provides word frequency information for the first letter in the form of five diamonds. It uses unique additional columns to explain the grammatical features of words. It defines the headwords using the most commonly used vocabulary. It uses the new international phonetic alphabet. This dictionary avoids using confusing codes, symbols, parentheses, and abbreviations in its text and layout as much as possible, making it an extremely valuable reference tool.