Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English helps advanced learners understand and communicate effectively in the real world. Students can get virtually all the answers to their questions about English — including pronunciation — through the two unique CD-ROMs

Features:

• More than 200,000 words, phrases, and meanings.
• Spoken and written frequency information — only Longman dictionaries contain this.
• Full-color with color photos and artwork.
• Word Focus Boxes and Usage Notes help students avoid making common errors.
• 155,000 real-life examples, based on the Longman Corpus, show words in context.
• 63,000 collocations help students understand how words are used together.
• 3,000 most frequent words highlighted in red so students know which words are most important to learn.

Interactive CD-ROMs feature:

• Every word pronounced in both American and British English.
• 88,000 spoken examples help students with prounciation.
• 1 million additional example sentences from books and newspapers.
• Instant pop-up dictionary allows students to double-click on any word to find the meaning.