The Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary doesn’t just help you find words quickly and understand them easily. It gives the vital support which advanced students need, especially with the essential skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Ideal for FCE, CAE, CPE, BEC and IELTS preparation.

Key Features

In the book

• 170,000 words, phrases and examples

• New words: all the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, jus, 9/11, clickable) so that your English stays up-to-date

• Colour headwords: so that you can find the word you are looking for quickly

• Idiom Finder: making idioms so much easier to find

• 200 ‘Common Learner Error’ notes show how to avoid common mistakes

• 25,000 collocations show the way words work together in English

• Colour pictures: 16 full page colour pictures that explain groups of words visually.

On the CD-ROM

• Sound: recordings in British and American English for all words, plus practice tools to help improve pronunciation

• Smart Thesaurus helps you choose the right word – fast!

• QUICKfind looks up words for you while you are working or reading on screen

• SUPERwrite gives on screen help with grammar, spelling and collocation when you are writing.

• Hundreds of interactive exercises can be printed for classroom use or done on-screen

• Copy and paste lets you use any part of the dictionary in your own documents

External Links

Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (amazon.co.uk)