Longman Dictionary Of Contemporary English

This is new dictionary reveals for the first time the richness of the English language, from natural informal conversation to literature and business language, all based on the 100 million word british national corpus, the 30 million word longman Lancaster corpus, the only corpus of british and ametican speech, and the 5 million world longman learner’s coprpus.
new spoken English the only dictionary to recognize the importance of spoken English, showing the words and phrases used to communicate naturally in spoken English.
new frequency information the most frequent words in spoken and written English are marked, to show learners which words are important. Over 150 graphs compare the frequency of American usage and frequency of collocations, grammer patterns and synonyms.
new phrases and collocations this dictionary highlights thousands of phrases and collocations in the clearest possible way.
new easy access “signposts”and menus in longer entries guide you straight to the meaning you want,quickly.