Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 7th Edition (2005) Paperback + CD-ROM

Key features:

• 183,500 British and American words, phrases, and meanings, plus 85,000 examples showing how words are used.
• 20,000 word origins explained on the COMPASS CD-ROM.
• Over 200,000 extra example sentences on the COMPASS CD-ROM.
• 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.
• 200 special synonym notes covering 1,200 synonyms.
• Illustrations and photographs explain 2000+ words.
• Labelled illustrations show related vocabulary.
• 32 colour pages illustrate groups of words such as extreme sports, music, etc.
• Colour maps - much appreciated by teachers and students.
• 2,600 encyclopedic entries to explain references such as Walter Mitty, Fort Knox, Marie Celeste, Peter Pan, Beacon Hill.
• Over 10,000 entries on every aspect of British and American culture on the COMPASS CD-ROM.

• 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.