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Collins Dictionary of the English Language
This major new dictionary contains more vocabulary references (over 162,000) and more text (almost 3 million words) than any comparable one-volume dictionary,
• In-depth coverage of contemporary English. Systematic surveys of over 200 fields of knowledge by expert consultants and specialist editors ensure not only an extensive but also a balanced treatment of today's language.
• A single A-Z listing. Compound words, derivatives that have a meaning of their own, foreign terms, and... Tovább

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162000 Stichwörter
Hochaktueller Wortschatz aus über 200 Wissensgebieten
Treffende, verständliche Definitionen
Zahlreiche Anwendungsbeispiele und idiomatische Wendungen
Kennzeichnung der Stilebene
Orts- und Ländernamen, Namen berühmter Persönlichkeiten bis zur heutigen Zeit '
Alphabetische Anordnung aller Einträge
Silbentrennung markiert
Angaben zur Etymologie
Internationale Lautschrift
Das Standardwerk fürjeden Anglisten


Collins Dictionary of the English Language
This major new dictionary contains more vocabulary references (over 162,000) and more text (almost 3 million words) than any comparable one-volume dictionary,
• In-depth coverage of contemporary English. Systematic surveys of over 200 fields of knowledge by expert consultants and specialist editors ensure not only an extensive but also a balanced treatment of today's language.
• A single A-Z listing. Compound words, derivatives that have a meaning of their own, foreign terms, and abbreviations are all readily found as headwords.
• Full, rounded definitions in straightforward language make the information easy to understand.
• Excellent coverage of science and technology. Definitions are full and authoritative with emphasis on areas of particular relevance to contemporary life - electronics, communications, computer technology, life sciences, etc.
• Most important current meaning comes first.
• Full, precise pronunciations are provided in a transcription specially adapted from the International Phonetic Alphabet and apfliroved by Professor A. C. Glmson of the Department of Phonetics, University College, London.
• Etymologies are given without cryptic abbreviations and are both readable and Informative.
• Usage notes provide guidance, where necessary, on difficult points of grammar, syntax, or idiom.
• Preferred hyphenation points (or their absence) are indicated for all headwords and derivatives.
• Examples In context provide guidance on usage and shades of meaning where doubt or difficulty exists.
• Geographical and biographical names and a variety of proper nouns are included (over 14,000 of them).
This Dictionary ofthe English Language provides in one easily handled volume a comprehensive treatment of the English language of today. Vissza