Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English - Couverture rigide

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0194311104 ISBN 13 : 9780194311106

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

This thoroughly revised and updated new edition of the standard dictionary for advanced learners of English contains 57000 words and phrases, with thousands of new words, increased coverage of phrasal verbs, idioms and American English, greater focus on pronunciation and stress, as well as appendices on irregular verbs, punctuation, weights and measures, etc. The edition also provides notes to clarify points of semantic or grammatical difficulty and an introduction in simple English for the student, plus a higher-level foreword for the teacher or lecturer. This dictionary will be of benefit to advanced students of English, for students reading and studying contemporary textbooks, literature, newspapers and periodicals, for non-native teachers of advanced level English and for non-native lecturers in English studies.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 you need to know in English : the Oxford 3000. It has the Compass CD-ROM which gives you more than any other dictionary CD-ROM : Everything that's in this 7th edition, everything in 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, file coach, offshoring) ; 7,000 synonyms and opposites ; 5,000 study words from the sciences, literature, computing and business ; 700 World English words (stickybeak, godown, indaba) ; 2,600 cultural words (Walter Mitty, Forth Bridge, Capital Hill) ; 2,000 words illustrated ; 32 pages of colour illustrations ; 96 study pages (essay writing, mails, quick grammar reference). This dictionary is based on the British National Corpus, the Oxford Corpus Collection and the Oxford Reading Programme for language research.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 you need to know in English: the Oxford 3000. The new 32-page Oxford 3000 Vocabulary Trainer, included in this dictionary, shows students how to extend and expand their vocabulary beyond these keywords.It has the Compass CD-ROM which gives you: everything that's in this 7th edition ; everything in the Oxford Learner's Wordfinder Dictionary and the Oxford Guide to British and American Culture ; information on 20,000 word origins.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0194311104
• ISBN 13: 9780194311106
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 1599
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Oxford University Press España, S.A.; Materiales y catálogo; materiales@oup.es