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The Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary is the best route to success in English.

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The sixth edition of this best-selling dictionary ensures students produce more accurate English both in writing and speaking with 230,000 words, phrases and meanings.

• Covers everything you are likely to need – 15,000 encyclopaedic entries covering people, places, history, geography, the arts and popular culture
• Get in-depth understanding on topics such as festivals, special days and key events in British and American history from the colour feature pages
• No need to carry two dictionaries – also includes a full language dictionary
• 80,000 words and phrases with clear definitions

• 5,000 phrasal verbs, including new ones from computing, business, and the Internet.
• Unique Phrasal Verbs Activator® helps learners choose the right phrasal verb for the context.
• Clear grammar patterns show how to use phrasal verbs.

• 135,000 pronuncaitions of words in both British & American English
• over 200 graphs showing pronunciaiton preferences of British & American speakers
• stress patterns for thousands of compounds & idioms
• more than 50 Spelling-to-sound boxes and 35 Language Panels
• thousands of proper names
• pronunciation in the lanugage of origin as well as English

A general purpose dictionary suitable for a great variety of both English and Spanish speakers at all levels of proficiency, this volume contains over 100,000 entries – common and technical words and phrases, slang and idioms – with examples of usage that include many especially chosen to help users express themselves in a natural and fluent style. All headwords – both English and Spanish – have phonetic transcriptions based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to assist with pronunciation.

Encompassing more than 300,000 definitions, this up-to-date reference of the English language includes more than five hundred new entries and covers both old and new words, the commonplace and the unusual, with information on idioms, etymologies, and more than 200,000 references.