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The Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English helps students learn the words and phrases used in academic writing, and how to use them in their own academic written work. With Oxford Academic iWriter on CD-ROM.

The only learner's dictionary to focus exclusively on academic English, the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English is specifically designed for learners studying, or preparing to study, academic subjects on English-medium university courses. Based on the 85-million-word Oxford Corpus of Academic English, it provides all the tools students need to develop their academic writing skills.

Includes hundreds of academic usage notes, full-sentence examples based on real academ

Never be lost for words again

• 230,000 words, phrases and meanings and 165,000 corpus-based examples
• Register notes focus on the differences between spoken and written English so you always choose the right word
• Longman Communication 9000: updated core vocabulary, including the 3000 most frequent words in spoken and written English, show which words to learn first
• Clear, easy-to-understand definitions written using only 2000 common words

Complete vocabulary and grammar resource

• Integrated Collocations Dictionary with over 65,000 collocations
• Integrated Thesaurus with over 18,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words
• Grammar notes help to avoid common

Never be lost for words again

• 230,000 words, phrases and meanings and 165,000 corpus-based examples
• Register notes focus on the differences between spoken and written English so you always choose the right word
• Longman Communication 9000: updated core vocabulary, including the 3000 most frequent words in spoken and written English, show which words to learn first
• Clear, easy-to-understand definitions written using only 2000 common words

Complete vocabulary and grammar resource

• Integrated Collocations Dictionary with over 65,000 collocations
• Integrated Thesaurus with over 18,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words
• Grammar notes help to avoid common

A fully updated edition of the best-selling Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

This paperback edition is ideal for advanced (C1-C2) learners of English and contains up-to-date vocabulary, including words from the areas of technology, media, language, society, and lifestyle, plus important words for academic study.

With over 140,000 words, phrases, meanings, and examples, hundreds of pictures and illustrations, clear definitions and a new 'Focus on Writing' section, the dictionary is perfect as a reference tool and as a study companion. Informed by the Cambridge International Corpus and correlated to English Vocabulary Profile, it is also ideal for exam preparation.

The CD-ROM contains the complete dictionary and recordings in British and A

Idioms are fairly fixed phrases that consist of more than one word, with a meaning that cannot be understood from putting together the meanings of the individual words. But this dictionary of approximately 2,000 idioms is different from other dictionaries of idioms. Such dictionaries often try to give a complete list of all idioms; in this book we have concentrated on phrases that are used in certain conversational situations. Clear examples are How do you do? when greeting, Well I never! when you are surprised, and sayings such as Great minds think alike and Wonders will never cease.

This book will be found useful by all speakers of English. Students learning English as a second or foreign language, esp

The Cambridge Learner's Dictionary is the best route to success in English. This new edition updates the existing content and contains new features to make learning English even easier. The new edition has been revised and fully updated throughout and includes many new words (e.g. phone-hacking, cloud computing, rare earth, toxic debt) with more than 35,000 definitions in clear, simple English. English Profile levels mark the essential vocabulary that students need to know at CEF B1-B2 levels, see www.englishprofile.org for more information. Mini-collocation panels help students to produce more natural English. Common mistakes are highlighted based on the Cambridge English Corpus. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a 'record yourself' feature for pronunciation practice and spoken pronunc