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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English is the key to vocabulary building! Now with the full contents online, plus online Thesaurus and Vocabulary Checker.
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- 109,000 words, meanings and phrases, including words from the Academic Word List.
- 59,000 example sentences, showing thousands of academic words and collocations.
- Clear definitions written using the Longman American Defining .
- Vocabulary of just 2,000 common words.
- Words for content areas such as Science and Social Studies.
The key to vocabulary building
- Collocation boxes show combination of words that are often used together, such as strong interest, highly successful, and take a test.
- Integrated Thesaurus explains thousands of synonyms and antonyms.
-Learner's Handbook on Writing, Collocations and Grammar.
- Workbook exercises for self-study and classroom use
Entire contents online
- Pronunciation of all the words and example sentences, and pronunciation practice.
- Longman Vocabulary Checker: find out which type of vocabulary is used in the text you are reading and which words you should learn.
- Thesaurus: choose the right word and build your vocabulary.
- Topic Vocabulary: find all the words you need to write about common topics such as Describing Places, Technology, Sports and Relationships.
- Academic Study Center with interactive exercises for vocabulary, reading and writing, and exam practice for TOEFL.
The Longman Dictionary English
Now with integrated Grammar, Thesaurus, and Collocations Dictionary.
Improve your English with the full content of the dictionary at your fingertips:
Natural English
● 165,000 corpus-based examples of natural English show words in context and how English is really used.
Comprehensive
● 230,000 words, phrases, and meanings – more than any other learner's dictionary.
Easy to use – easy to understand
● Definitions written using a vocabulary of just 2,000 words – the King Defining Vocabulary, ensuring all definitions are clear and easy to understand.
Expand your vocabulary
● Frequency information on the most common words – the new King Communication 9000 – helps you learn them first.
● Words from the Academic Word List highlighted to help you improve your essays and presentations.
Write and speak fluently
● An integrated Collocations Dictionary with more than 65,000 collocations: learn word combinations to use the correct words together, such as ‘take a test’ (not ‘make a test’), ‘heavy rain’ (not ‘strong rain’), and ‘highly successful’.
● The integrated Thesaurus with more than 18,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words helps you improve your writing by using more precise and high level words: stop saying ‘nice’, instead, say ‘lovely, delightful, enjoyable, wonderful, brilliant’.
● Register Notes on the differences between spoken and written English help you express yourself precisely.
Improve your grammar
This dictionary, English dictionary, English dictionary offline, offline English dictionary, English dictionaries
All this makes the Longman Dictionary English the largest resource of English available on any mobile platform.
________________________________
Application Features:
- Full content of the print dictionary
- PLUS additional collocations, synonyms, and word origins
- Guide on how to use the dictionary
- Search using wildcards and suggested words
- Predictive text in search helps you with spelling as you look for words
- Search for idioms and phrasal verbs
- Search history to help you find recently searched for words
- Support for search from within other compatible apps on your device
- Bookmark your favorite words
- Word-of-the-Day
- My vocabulary
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The latest version of Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English is the sixth edition. The premium website was revised during 2014 and 2015 and offers over a million corpus examples, exceeding that of the paper version and also supplying sound files for every word and 88,000 example sentences, along with various tools for study, teaching, examinations and grammar. The 9000 most important English words to learn have been highlighted via the Longman Communication 9000.
The gratis LDOCE online was updated to its current layout in 2008 and offers a search (with spelling assistance), definitions; collocations; many examples and pictures.
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- 2.1English dictionaries
- 2.2English-Chinese dictionaries
Longman Defining Vocabulary[edit]
A key feature of the LDOCE is its utilization of the Longman Defining Vocabulary, a 2000-word controlled defining vocabulary used to write all of the definitions in the dictionary.[2] This defining vocabulary was developed from Michael West's General Service List of high-frequency words and their most common meanings.[3]
The controlled defining vocabulary is not only helpful to second-language learners, but has also facilitated the use of the LDOCE as a machine-readable dictionary in computational linguistics research.[4]
Publications[edit]
English dictionaries[edit]
LDOCE by Pearson English Language Teaching[edit]
- 6th edition (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 6th Edition): Includes 230,000 words, phrases, and meanings; 165,000 corpus-based example sentences, Longman 9,000 keywords, 65,000 collocations (extra 147,000 online), online access for print dictionary.[5]
- Paperback bi-colour edition+12 months online subscription (ISBN978-144795420-0)
- 1st? impression (2014-07-04)
Longman Handy Learner's Dictionary of American English[edit]
- 2nd? edition: Includes 28,000 words and phrases.[6]
English-Chinese dictionaries[edit]
LDOCE by Longman[edit]
- Third edition: Includes 80,000 entries, over 200 usage topics, 24 pages of coloured illustrations, 3,000 popular keywords, 20 Language Notes, over 150 new usage frequency tables, new IELTS vocabulary table. Optical disc includes only new contents not found in the printed LDOCE dictionary.
- Traditional Chinese version (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (English-Chinese) Third Edition/朗文當代高級辭典(英英・英漢雙解)第三版)
- Paperback edition+disc (ISBN978-962005271-2)
- 1st? impression (2004-10-30)
LDOCE by Pearson English Language Teaching (Asia)[edit]
- 4th edition: Includes 207,000 words, phrases, and meanings (including 4000 new words); 155,000 usage examples, 7,000 synonyms and antonyms, over 250 usage topics, 14 pages of coloured illustrations, 3,000 popular keywords, Language Notes. Definitions use only 2000 common words. Optical disc includes contents from LDOCE and Longman Concise Chinese-English Dictionary.
- Traditional Chinese version (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (English-Chinese) 4th Edition/朗文當代高級辭典(英英・英漢雙解)第四版)
- Hardcover edition+disc (ISBN978-962005843-1)
- 1st? impression (2010-01-28)
- Hardcover condensed print edition+disc (ISBN978-962005841-7)
- 1st? impression (2009-09-03)
- 5th edition:
- Traditional Chinese version (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (English-Chinese) 5th Edition/朗文當代高級英漢雙解辭典第五版)
- Hardcover edition with DVD (ISBN988009240-6/ISBN978-9-88009240-4)
- 1st? impression (2013-08-12)
- Hardcover condensed print edition with DVD (ISBN988009241-4/ISBN978-9-88009241-1)
- 1st? impression (2013-08-12)
Longman Advanced American Dictionary by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press[edit]
- New edition: Includes 185,000 words, phrases, definitions (including 6000 new encyclopaedic entries); 73,000 examples, over 1,000 word analyses, grammar hints, vocabulary choices, oral phrases, composition hints.
- Simplified Chinese version
- Hardcover edition (Longman Advanced American Dictionary new edition/新版朗文當代高階英漢雙解詞典) (ISBN978-756008420-6)
- 1st? impression (2013-08-01)
LDOCE by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press[edit]
- 4th edition
- Simplified Chinese version
- Hardcover edition+disc (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English/朗文當代高級英語辭典(英英‧英漢雙解)第4版) (ISBN978-756008420-6)
- 1st? impression (2009-12-01)
- Hardcover large print edition+disc (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English/朗文當代高級英語辭典(英英‧英漢雙解)第4版(大字版)) (ISBN978-756008487-9)
- 1st? impression (2010-02-01)
- Hardcover condensed print edition (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 4th Edition/朗文當代高級英語辭典(英英‧英漢雙解)) (ISBN978-756008604-0)
- 1st? impression (2009-06-01)
- Paperback condensed print edition (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English/朗文當代高級英語辭典(英英‧英漢雙解)第4版(縮印版)) (ISBN978-756008501-2)
- 1st? impression (2010-07-01)
- 5th edition
- Simplified Chinese version (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5th Edition/朗文當代高級英語辭典(英英‧英漢雙解)第5版)
- Softcover edition (ISBN978-751354413-9)
- 1st? impression (2014-08-01)
- Hardcover edition (ISBN978-751354210-4)
- 1st? impression (2014-05-01)
- Hardcover large print edition+DVD (ISBN978-751354980-6)
- 1st? impression (2014-10-01)
LDOCE by Dahe shubao tushu gufen youxiangongsi[edit]
- 5th edition: Includes 230,000 entries, 65,000 collocations, 18,000-word synonyms and antonyms, 3000 common oral and written words. New thesaurus, grammar, collocation sections. DVD supports Microsoft Windows 2000(SP4) to Windows 10, includes contents from LDOCE and Longman Concise Chinese-English Dictionary, English pronunciations, bookmarks and notes. Online contents (available for 4 years after activation) includes online vocabulary and grammatical resources (including short video, interactive exercises and examinations), Longman Communication 9000.
- Traditional Chinese version (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (English-Chinese) 5th Edition/朗文當代高級英漢雙解辭典第五版)
- Hardcover bi-colour edition with 4 years online service (with English LDOCE 6th edition)+DVD (ISBN978-916001562-8)
- 1st? impression (2017-01-12)
LDOCE by XCome Technology Ltd.[edit]
- 4th edition
- Android version (Longman Dictionary)[7]: Based on Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (English-Chinese) (4th edition).
- 1.5.8 (Android 2.3.3, 2017-06-15)
- iOS version (朗文当代高级词典(英英/英汉 双解)[8], 朗文當代高級辭典(英英/英漢 雙解)[9]
- 1.0 (2015-12-21)
- 1.1 (2016-01-20)
- 1.2 (2017-07-05)
- 1.3 (iOS 8.0, 2017-07-20)
References[edit]
- ^Anthony Paul Cowie. English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners: A History. Oxford University Press.
- ^Atkins, B. and M. Rundell. The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography, 2008: Oxford University Press.
- ^West, M. A General Service List of English Words, 1953, London: Longman.
- ^Bullock, D. 'NSM + LDOCE: A Non-Circular Dictionary of English', International Journal of Lexicography, 24/2, 2011: 226-240.
- ^[http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/catalog/products/product-details/?sid=Learner+Dictionaries&pid=F-0JR-LDLongman Dictionary of Contemporary English]
- ^[http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/catalog/products/product-details/?sid=Learner+Dictionaries&pid=F-0EH-19Longman Handy Learner's Dictionary of American English]
- ^Longman Dictionary
- ^朗文当代高级词典(英英/英汉 双解)
- ^朗文當代高級辭典(英英/英漢 雙解)
External links[edit]
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online (free)
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