Collins English Dictionary (4th ed)

Collins are proud to announce a major new edition of their flagship English Dictionary - Collins English Dictionary.

This fourth edition contains a wealth of new words and meanings, technical terms and abbreviations, as well as thousands of new and updated biographical and geographical entries.

Encyclopedic entries offer you instance access to a range of key facts and figures about people and places in the news and of general interest - all the information you need in one alphabetical list - all the facts at your fingertips.The Bank of English - the biggest language database in the world - enables Collins lexicographers to keep the changing language under constant review.

So you can be sure that the new words and meanings you come across in daily life are all explainedEncyclopedic facts from place names to populations have been reviewed and revised.

New people are included and existing biographies updated.

International English is well represented and new material supplied by specialist language consultants in each area.