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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary [Import] (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 1768 pages
  • Publisher: Cengage ELT; 5Rev Ed edition (3 Feb 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007210132
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007210138
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 225,014 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The new fifth edition of the "Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary" offers up-to-date coverage of today's English in a clear, attractive format. In its attractive two-colour layout, the fifth edition of the "Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary" offers learners of English detailed coverage of today's language. With lots of new words and phrases and definitions written in simple, natural English, this dictionary is exceptionally easy to use and understand. The examples, which have all been taken from the Bank of English, part of the prestigious Collins Word Web, are invaluable in providing context for words and phrases. Grammatical information and additional information on synonyms, pragmatics and frequency is shown in the Extra Column, making it easy to find and use. In the "Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's Dictionary" thousands of set grammatical structures, particularly useful to learners of English are identified and highlighted. Useful illustrations cover a range of topics, and the supplement, "Access to English", helps the user with hundreds of practical phrases illustrating important structures in areas such as essay-writing, presentations, report-writing and job applications. "The Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary" provides invaluable and detailed guidance on the English language, and is the complete reference tool for learners of English. The CD-Rom is PC compatible and contains: "Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary" - 5 million Wordbank of authentic text samples (written and spoken), with high quality audio pronunciations for headwords, phrases, derived words and inflected forms.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST that YOUR MONEY CAN GET. 5 stars out of 5. , 11 Jul 2006
PROS

- Each word entry has an example. It is drawn from Collins' bank of English with 2.5 billions of real Englis words. This help the readers to use the word in natural expression and grammatically correct. So far, it's the only dictionary that offers this useful feature. It has saved me from hours of frustration while writing technical documents and correspondence.

- You get two dictionaries for the price of one! It comes with a Dictionary CD rom containing the printed copy of the dictionary TOGETHER WITH pronunciation and 5 millions words of real English. This means you can look up the words, pronunciation and examples very quickly. This is a unique offer.

- It is well organized. Each word entry is printed in blue. Its definition is in black.

- The price is unbeatable for such a good and comprehensive dictionary.

CONS

Once in a while, there is a word with unclear definition. At that time I have to consult another dictionary. But after that I have to come back to Collins dictionary for examples.

In short, this is the BEST that YOUR MONEY CAN GET. I wish I had it while I was in school. Every high school and college student should have one copy.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Still the best, 19 May 2008
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This is the earliest and still the best of corpus-based dictionaries, meaning that everything in it, especially all the examples, are taken from a database of currently-used English. Many other publishers have brought out corpus-based dictionaries (usually called learner's dictionaries), but this one still tops them. One key feature is that definitions are written as a full, natural-sounding sentence, the way you would paraphrase a word to a friend. This makes for much easier reading and comprehension, plus it demonstrates the normal way a word is used. The examples are chosen to highlight typical uses and words typîcally used with the main word (collocations). It's overall user-friendliness is outstanding. The grammar information itself is clever and uses the minimum amount of grammar jargon to give you the information you need. The CD-Rom version included is easy to install and to use (my adult students are very enthusiastic, and many have put in onto their office PCs as an everyday resource). In brief, this is a dictionary that understands the needs of today's English language user and learner and delivers it in the most accessible way. The additional features in the most recent sixth edition seem to meant to align it with other learner's dictionaries and go for a less austere look: adding more colour, pictures, and boxes with various bit of extra information. If this seduces more people, fine. But the basic reasons for using it are still the same as explained above.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good!, 23 Jun 2009
A good dictionary,detailed but not too much...it doesn't have some new words but in the end it's a very good dictionary! i reccomended it!;-)
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