Cobuild Dictionary Advanced Learners 4th Ed With cd Rom: Advanced Edition

The new fourth edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary is now in colour, and offers up-to-date coverage of today’s English in a clear, attractive format.

Now in an attractive two-colour layout, the fourth edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary offers learners of English detailed coverage of today’s language. Containing hundreds of new words and thousands of 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, have been revised and updated for this edition, and 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 easily accessible.

New to the fourth edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary is the identification of thousands of set grammatical structures, particularly useful to learners of English. In addition, the new edition includes useful illustrations covering a range of topics, and Access to English – a unique supplement containing hundreds of practical phrases helping with important structures in areas such as essay-writing, business correspondence 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 and Mac compatible and contains:

· Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary.
· 5 million Wordbank of authentic text samples (written & spoken), with high quality audio pronunciations for headwords, phrases, derived words and inflected forms.