Oxford Collocations Dictionary for
Students of English
A completely new type of dictionary that will help students write and speak natural-sounding English.
Level: Upper-Intermediate to
Advanced
Key features
- Collocations - common word combinations such as 'bright idea' or
'talk freely' - are the essential building blocks of natural-sounding
English. The dictionary contains over 150,000 collocations for nearly
9,000 headwords.
- The dictionary shows all the words that are commonly used in
combination with each headword: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and
prepositions as well as common phrases.
- The dictionary is based on the 100 million word British National
Corpus. Internet searches were made to ensure the most up-to-date usage
for fast changing areas of language such as computing.
- Over 50,000 examples show how the collocations are used in
context, with grammar and register information where helpful.
- The clear page layout groups collocations according to part
of speech and meaning, and helps users pinpoint speedily the headword,
sense and collocation they need.
- Usage notes show collocations shared by sets of words such as
languages and seasons.
- It is an ideal companion volume to the Oxford Advanced Learner's
Dictionary.