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.What you’ll find in this 7th edition183,500 British and American words, phrases and meanings85,000 example sentences2,000 new words (bird flu, life coach, offshoring)7,000 synonyms and opposites5,000 study words from the sciences, literature, computing and business700 World English words (stickybeak, godown, indaba)2,600 cultural words (Walter Mitty, Forth Bridge, Capitol Hill)2,000 words illustrated32 pages of colour illustrations96 study pages (essay writing, emails, quick grammar reference)This dictionary is based on the British National Corpus, the Oxford Corpus Collection and the Oxford Reading Programme for language research.
