Longman Advanced American Dictionary, Paper - Softcover

With over 84,000 entries, including over 4,000 encyclopedic entries for people, places, and organizations, the Longman Advanced American Dictionary is the ultimate reference for advanced students and instructors! Wide-ranging entries¿ from contemporary to idiomatic¿are thorough and understandable, as a result of the 2,000-word
Longman Defining Vocabulary.
The Longman Advanced American Dictionary is the first truly corpus-based dictionary of American English at the advanced level, utilizing:

• The Longman Spoken American Corpus, which contains 5 million words of demographically collected speech.
• The Longman Written American Corpus of 50 million words

• 84,000 words and phrases.
• 66,000 natural example sentences, based on the corpus, to show how words and phrases are really used.
• 40-page section on TOEFL¿ test preparation.
• Easy-to-see Signposts to direct students to the right meaning fast.
• 24,000 collocations and phrases.
• 3,000 most frequent words in American speech and writing clearly marked.
• 16 pages of color illustrations, plus hundreds of black-and-white illustrations.
• The Interactive CD-ROM includes:
  • all 84,000 entries clearly pronounced
  • 15,000 word origins that show the history of words
  • interactive exercises
  • TOEFL® and TOEIC¿ Tests
• The Longman Advanced American Dictionary Companion Website is packed with great self-grading activities for grammar and vocabulary practice, plus links to outside websites for additional information.
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