This is the world's bestselling advanced learner's dictionary, recommended by learners of English and their teachers, and used by 30 million people.
It has more words and more help with British and American English than any other advanced learner's dictionary.
It is the only advanced learner's dictionary to list the most important words you need to know in English: the Oxford 3000.
It has the Compass CD-ROM which gives you:
*Everything that's in this 7th Edition
*The Oxford Learner's Wordfinder Dictionary and the Oxford Guide to British and American Culture
*Information on 20,000 word origins
What you'll find in this 7th edtion
*183,000 British and American words, phrases and meanings
*85,000 example sentences
*2,000 new words (bird flu, life coach, offshoring)
*7,000 synonyms and opposites
*5,000 study words from the sciences, literature, computing and business
*700 World English words (stickybeak, godown, indaba)
*2,600 cultural words (Walter Mitty, Forth Bridge, Capitol Hill)
*2,000 words illustrated
*32 pages of colour illustrations
*96 study pages (essay writing, emails, quick grammar reference)
This dictionary is based on the British National Corpus, the Oxford Corpus Collection and the Oxford Reading Programme for language research.
