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Longman
Advanced
American Dictionary
Now with CD-ROM!
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About the Book
High-Intermediate–Advanced
It's the ultimate reference for advanced students and instructors! With over 4,000
encyclopedic entries for people, places, and organizations, the Longman Advanced
American Dictionary offers students access to the words and phrases Americans
really use in speech and in writing. Wide-ranging entries—from contemporary
and idiomatic to offbeat—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.
- Interactive CD-ROM with all 84,000
entries clearly pronounced! Word origins on the CD-ROM show the history
of words.
- The Longman Written American Corpus
of 50 million words.
- A large newspaper corpus from
the Linguistic Data Consortium of 85 million words.
- The 10-million word Longman Learners'
Corpus.
The unique features that make the Longman
Advanced American Dictionary the ideal reference in the classroom and beyond
include:
- 84,000 words and phrases.
- 66,000 natural example sentences
based on the corpus, to show how words and phrases are really used.
- New words, idioms, and up-to-date
entries ranging from business and literature to science, the Internet,
and more.
- 40-page section on TOEFLŪ test
preparation.
- Easy-to-see Signposts to
direct students to the right meaning fast.
- 24,000 collocations and phrases
showing how words can be used together.
- 3,000 most frequently used words
in American speech and writing.
- 16-page, full-color photo and
illustration section, plus hundreds of additional black-and-white photos and
illustrations.
- Usage notes based on the Longman
Learners' Corpus that help students choose the correct word and avoid common
errors.
- Clearly highlighted grammatical
patterns.
- More encyclopedic entries than
any other American ESL dictionary!
Components Listing
Longman Advanced American Dictionary
| Paper |
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0-582-31732-0 |
| Hardcover |
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0-582-31729-0 |
| Paper with CD-ROM |
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0-582-50409-0 |
| Hardcover with CD-ROM |
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0-582-50413-0 |
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