Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of English, 2nd edition (Paperback)

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All of our explanations, examples, and special features are based on our constantly updated 4.5-billion-word database of today’s English language, the Collins Corpus, which means that you can trust Collins COBUILD to help you speak and write accurate and up-to-date English. COBUILD promotes learning through Definitions PLUS: -Full-sentence definitions use the most common context in which target words are found in real life -Grammatical patterns shown in context help the learner to use English accurately and naturally -Natural English examples from the Collins Corpus show the user words as they appear in everyday English.

Through a collaborative initiative, Collins COBUILD and Heinle are co-publishing a dynamic new line of learners' dictionaries offering unparalleled pedagogy and learners resources. The first Collins COBUILD dictionary was published in 1987, thanks in part to John Sinclair, one of the very first modern corpus linguists who personally oversaw the creation of the Bank of English(TM). Every COBUILD dictionary is based on the Bank of English(TM), a huge electronic database of both written and spoken language, which today contains over 650 million words.