English Dictionary Complete and Unabridged: More Than 730

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I have always wanted to possess this specific dictionary. The timing couldn't have been better! This dictionary is the latest edition(14e) that got released in the month of August last year. The 14th edition is meticulously updated to contain the latest and greatest of the modern English vocabulary. The IPA inclusion is the highlight! Its importance can never be exaggerated. It's a godlike feature. Kudos to the seller, "Cocoblu", for delivering this book order within a day!! In a region like India, such a behemoth of a dictionary is very hard to obtain. I'm glad that I could obtain the newest edition so quickly. I will be spending a larger part of my time from now on with this dictionary.

You need to have one.

Dicionário completo para o kindle, apesar de não ter todas as palavras, foi o dicionário mais completo que achei. Junto com o Oxford e o Merrian Webster que vêm com o kindle de graça, você terá uma leitura sem complicações.

This dictionary is impressive and deserves greater attention, especially in the American market. From recent slang like "lit", to recent informal terms like "mansplain", "anti-vax", "tldr", and "gender-fluid", and neologisms like "deep state", this 2023 dictionary is current. It impressed me with its definitions of linguistic terms like "phoneme", with brief examples. It has a broad scope of encyclopedic information, sometimes with a surprisingly detailed (but brief) biography of figures like Mao Zedong; some political figures like Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan have related entries that summarize their policies. The book comes with an impressively sturdy slipcase. The book is hefty but not unwieldy, at over 2300 pages. The Collins Fedra fonts are attractive: bold sans serif for headwords and serif for entries, on bright white pages with little bleed-through. The pages are just text--no illustrations of the aardvark, no maps, or tables. Pronunciation is within parentheses and uses IPA based on British pronunciation. Spellings are primarily British with some cross-references: color/colour. But some words are only British spelling: "pitta bread", not "pita". Etymologies at the end of entries are brief but include the century in which a word is first recorded. The dictionary has good sense distinctions and include a large number of compounds and collocations. With "public" there are about four dozen, from "public-address system" to "public-interest group", "public speaking" to "public works". The dictionary does not have many sense distinctions to help the user, e.g. to understand the meanings of "sarcasm" vs. "irony". For "imply" vs "infer", there is a paragraph-long note at "infer". There an occasional usage notes, e.g. under "decimate" it says "One talks about the whole of something being decimated, not a part: disease decimated the population not disease decimated most of the population" (with examples in italics). Summary: a great and up to date reference work, and a great value for the price.

You'd think a dictionary with this many words would have a common literary device defined. Antanaclasis. Polyptoton. Both missing. Seriously? Even their older versions are missing it. Okay, so as offline dictionaries go, this is still my preferred one. It's well-designed and does have all the highschool level words and phrases. You just won't be using this dictionary for higher level literary studies. Specialist dictionaries will need to be on hand, or go with the online ones. It's still a good starting point.

Oxfordの英英辞典を購入したのは２０年近く前になり、英英辞典新調の時季を迎えてしまいました。３６巻セットのOxford英英辞典および2巻簡便セットとを購入した際にはもう新規購入はしなくても良いと思ったのですが・・・英語小説やドイツ語小説の英訳を読んでいると。内容的に不明瞭になってきました。特にVEGAN関係のお料理のレシピ本の場合、英語かドイツ語になり、日本語訳が見つかりません。使われる英語も目新しいものばかりで、手持ちの英英辞典や独英辞典には記述の無いものが目立ってきました。ドイツ語のレシピ本も表紙は英語の表題が使われていますのですが、中身は最新英語と最新ドイツ語が混在しており、独英辞典と英英辞典を併用しています。英語も段々と進歩していますので、日本語訳を待っている時間はありません！