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Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary

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Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary
First edition
ISBN0-00-370023-2
Some Collins COBUILD dictionaries for advanced students of English: 1st edition on the left, 10th edition on the right.

The Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary[1] (CCAD) from HarperCollins, first published in 1987,[2] is a dictionary that distinguished itself by providing definitions in full sentences, rather than excerpted phrases. Example sentences are given for almost every meaning of every word, and all of them were drawn from a text corpus (COBUILD) of actual usage.

The dictionary includes phonetic transcriptions based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). In some editions, a digital version on CD-ROM was included with the dictionary in book form.

Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of American English

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There is an American English equivalent titled Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of American English, which was originally published in 2006 (2nd edition in 2016, 3rd edition 2023 as Collins COBUILD Advanced American English Dictionary ISBN 978-0-00-860778-4).[3]

Editions

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Notes

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  1. ^ Szynalski, Tomasz P. (1987). "Review of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary". Antimoon.com. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  2. ^ "Welcome to the Collins English Language Teaching Blog". collinselt.com. Collins. Retrieved 15 February 2017. When the first COBUILD dictionary was published in 1987 ...
  3. ^ "ELT | COBUILD Reference | Collins COBUILD Dictionaries for Learners". Collins. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  4. ^ Tenth edition will be published in June 2, 2022 as Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary' "COBUILD 30th ANNIVERSARY". collinsdictionary.com. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
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