Advanced Learners English Dictionary

by HarperCollins Publishers

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary offers detailed treatment of today's language. Based on the evidence from the Bank of English corpus, which now contains over 524 million words, the fifth edition contains the most important new words and meanings which have come into the language over the past two years, as well as thousands of new, updated examples, taken directly from the corpus.

Genres: Dictionaries

1768 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

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Reviews

[Mobile Library]

Read|er /ri:dәr/ (readers) 1 The readers of a newspaper, magazine, or book are the people who read it. □ These texts give the reader an insight into the Chinese mind. 2 A reader is a person who reads, especially one who reads for pleasure. □ Thanks to that job I became an avid reader. 3 A reader is a book to help children to learn to read, or to help people to learn a foreign language. It contains passages of text, and often exercises to give practice in reading and writing.

[Pam Brunell]

Great dictionary for child-friendly definitions