Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 6th Edition
For learners from upper-intermediate to advanced level: helps you learn to read, write and speak fluently, wherever you are, whatever you do, whatever you need. For teachers to use in class to teach vocabulary, with thousands of natural example sentences, synonyms and collocations: helps you teach natural English, whatever the context.
The sixth edition of this best-selling dictionary ensures learners produce more accurate English both in writing and speaking. Learners of English get extra help with grammar and using the correct tenses, and the integrated Thesaurus and Collocations support help them to build their vocabulary for life. Unlimited access to extra online learning resources offers the opportunity for lots of extra practice plus the ability to customize the material according to the language learners need to learn.
NATURAL ENGLISH GUARANTEED
The only advanced learner’s dictionary that explains differences in frequency between spoken and written English, helping students to use English more naturally. Authentic corpus-based examples show words in context and how they are used in sentences.
EASY TO USE – EASY TO UNDERSTAND
Written using a limited vocabulary of just 2000 words - the Longman Defining Vocabulary, ensuring all definitions are clear and understandable.
EXPAND VOCABULARY
Learn words, phrases, expressions, use the frequency information on the new Longman communication 9000 to guide you and learn the most common words first.
WRITE AND SPEAK FLUENTLY
Express yourself correctly, use accurate English both in writing and speaking by using the integrated Thesaurus and Collocation boxes to help you expand vocabulary.
IMPROVE GRAMMAR
Students get extra help with grammar patterns and using the correct tenses, and avoid making common mistakes.
ACCESS EVERYTHING ONLINE PLUS EXTRA INTERACTIVE PRACTICE
Unlimited access to LDOCE6 Online learning resources that you can customize according to the words you need to learn or teach.
Expand your vocabulary
• 230,000 words, phrases and meanings and 165,000 corpus-based examples
• Register notes focus on the differences between spoken and written English
• NEW Longman Communication 9,000 (Updated core vocabulary).
Research into vocabulary acquisition has shown that the size of vocabulary needed for a reader to be able to understand a wide variety of authentic texts may be as large as 8,000 – 9,000 word families. In this dictionary, we show the most important 9,000 words to learn in English. To help decide which words are important for students to learn, they are divided into three bands and marked with circles:
••• high frequency words – indicates the top 3,000 words
•• mid frequency words – indicates the next most important 3,000 words
• low frequency words – indicates the less frequent yet important next 3,000 words on the list
In addition to this new information, we have retained the frequency information that is a unique feature in Longman dictionaries: information on written and spoken frequency. This information is marked in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English with the symbols W1 W2 W3 and S1 S2 S3.
W1 and S1 indicate the 1000 most frequent words in written or spoken English.
W2 and S2 mark the next 1000 (1000-2000) most frequent words.
W3 and S3 denote the words in the 2000-3000 frequency range.
Write and speak fluently with thesaurus and collocation information
• Integrated Collocations Dictionary with over 65,000 collocations: learn combination of words so that you use the correct words together such as take a test (NOT “make a test”), heavy rain (NOT “strong rain”), or highly successful
• Integrated Thesaurus with over 18,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words, help us improve your academic writing by using more precise and high level words for what you want to say: fed up of using nice, then say “lovely, delightful, enjoyable, wonderful, brilliant…”
Improve your grammar
• NEW Grammar notes help to avoid common grammar mistakes relating to prepositions, grammar patterns and word order
• NEW 32-page Grammar Guide provides clear and concise information on key grammar topics such as verb tenses, verb patterns and the order of adjectives
Access all this as well as interactive practice online:
NEW Complete vocabulary and grammar package online at www.longmandictionaries.com
• Entire Dictionary with pronunciation of all the words and example sentences: 300,000 words, phrases and meanings; 88,000 pronounced examples + 1 million additional corpus examples
• 147,000 collocations + 48,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words
• NEW Longman Vocabulary Checker: find out which type of vocabulary is used in the text you are reading and which words you should learn
• NEW Grammar Centre with video presentations of key grammar points + interactive practice, tests and scores to help measure progress
• Study Centre with thousands of exercises, including exam practice for Cambridge English First,
CAE, CPE, IELTS and TOEIC®
