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  2. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary: Cambridge University Press: 2003 [3] 4th (ISBN 9781107619500) 2013 (24.06) 1,856 140,000 British: Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary: Collins Cobuild: 1987 10th (ISBN 978-0008444907) 2023 (13.04) 1,920 British: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: Pearson-Longman: 1978 6th (ISBN 9781447954194 ...

  3. Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary 3rd Edition CD-ROM. The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (abbreviated CALD) is a British dictionary of the English language. It was first published in 1995 under the title Cambridge International Dictionary of English by the Cambridge University Press. The dictionary has over 140,000 words, phrases ...

  4. Advanced learner's dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English.Special edition in two volumes (USSR, 1982). The advanced learner's dictionary is the most common type of monolingual learner's dictionary, that is, a dictionary written in one language only, for someone who is learning a foreign language.

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    For the first portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English (A–L). Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other dialect; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively. Additional usage ...

  6. List of online dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Linguee collaborative dictionary and contextual sentences; Madura English-Sinhala Dictionary free English to Sinhala and vice versa; Multitran multilingual online dictionary centered on Russian, and provides an opportunity of adding own translation; Reverso collaborative dictionary and contextual translations; Ultralingua free and premium ...

  7. Curriculum - Wikipedia

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    A 52-week curriculum for a medical school, showing the courses for the different levels. In education, a curriculum (/ k ə ˈ r ɪ k j ʊ l ə m /; pl.: curriculums or curricula / k ə ˈ r ɪ k j ʊ l ə /) is the totality of student experiences that occur in an educational process.

  8. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms.

  9. Defining vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions. The underlying principle goes back to Samuel Johnson's notion that words should be defined using 'terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained', [1] and a defining vocabulary provides the lexicographer with a restricted list of high-frequency words which can be used for producing simple ...