This is the world's bestselling advanced learner's dictionary, recommended by learners of English and their teachers, and used by 30 million people.
What you`ll in this 7th edition:- 183,500 British and American words, phrases, and meanings, plus 85,000 examples showing how words are used.- 2,000 new words and meanings from British and American English, such as offshoring, life coach, sex up, wi-fi.- 5,000 study words used in the sciences, maths, computing, literature, and business.- 700 entries for words from Australia, Canada, East Africa, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and West Africa.Oxford 3000: the only reliable list in a dictionary to identify the 3,000 keywords students need to know.Special entries for words on the Oxford 3000 list, with extra information on synonyms, collocations, and extra examples to extend vocabulary.- 7,000 synonyms and opposites shown.- 32 colour pages illustrate groups of words such as extreme sports, music, etc.- 2,600 encyclopedic entries to explain references such as Walter Mitty, Fort Knox, Marie Celeste, Peter Pan, Beacon Hill.
The Compass CD-ROM has:- Everything that’s in the 7th edition- Everything in the Oxford Learner’s Wordfinder Dictionary and the- Oxford Guide to British and American Culture.- Information on 20,000 word origins.