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
These unique features make the Longman Advanced American Dictionary the ideal reference in the classroom and beyond:
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.
