English Dictionary Complete and Unabridged edition with slipcase: More than 732,000 words meanings and phrases (Collins Complete and Unabridged)

I use this all the time and find it really helpful. I have it in hardback and Kindle versions. Has never let me down, has a really good coverage of words and meanings for everyday use.

£35 for a book of this size in a slip cover is great value. The pages are quite thin but they are cramming a lot into a single edition. The type is not offensively small. A dictionary and certainly a printed one will never contain ALL the latest words but there is a surprising amount of colloquial and internet content: NSFW, tl;dr, peng. The current war has influenced the way we spell Ukrainian place names and they are updated here, eg Kyiv. I was glad to see that it seems no words have been redefined for political purposes as they sadly have been in some other dictionaries. The only downside really is the thinness of the pages as I already mentioned and sometimes a word will seen to not be in the dictionary but then you find it under a headword. Thus there is no entry for sexist or sexism but they are included under sex. When it comes to potentially offensive words they are in there so this could not be considered a "school dictionary" though whether you would consider it "suitable for children" is down to the individual. As a final note I was personally happy to see that "semierect" made it in.

Old school way of seeing definitions!

I had bought this same dictionary 2 years ago when it was sold without a box sleeve. It is a fragile book just because of the number of pages in a single book. The pages are necessarily very thin, think bible pages! the spine is also not brilliantly robust so the box sleeve is a great addition. I play a lot of scrabble with my brother and we use the dictionary every game. It is great to have such a huge number of words in one volume. I have docked one star because the book arrived with a section of pages that had been creased, probably in manufacture. If I had picked it up in a shop I would have put it down and chosen another copy. However, you will find it is impossible to use this very heavy book without damaging the ultra thin pages! It needs to be handled with care..... this is not a dictionary for children.

Bought as a present for my 89 year old Dad who loves cryptic crosswords but, when he thinks he's solved a clue, it's often a word he's unsure of. Not any more, this reference volume is the answer. The only criticism is, the volume is so complete, the typeface is very small, sometimes requiring a magnifying glass to read.

I find the words in this dictionary that others don't have.

Originally purchased when it came out in 2023, it has not let me down in the 2 years since. I've just bought another copy for my best friend's daughter (aged 10) who, like us, is a bibliophile. I've just looked up eleemosynary - who'd have thought that would come up in a children's book (Meg Cabot's 'The Princess Diaries: 2 - Take Two', page 185)? eleemosynary adj 1 of, concerned with, or dependent on charity 2 given as an act of charity [C17: from Church Latin eleemosyna ALMS] The pronunciation - not shown here - contains characters from the phonetic alphabet I can't reproduce here. There is a preface that shows the necessary characters and how they are pronounced. This is the 14th edition. Given that the 13th edition was released in 2018, it might be a while before it is updated again.

Every household needs one of these

You need to have one.

Dicionário completo para o kindle, apesar de não ter todas as palavras, foi o dicionário mais completo que achei. Junto com o Oxford e o Merrian Webster que vêm com o kindle de graça, você terá uma leitura sem complicações.

This dictionary is impressive and deserves greater attention, especially in the American market. From recent slang like "lit", to recent informal terms like "mansplain", "anti-vax", "tldr", and "gender-fluid", and neologisms like "deep state", this 2023 dictionary is current. It impressed me with its definitions of linguistic terms like "phoneme", with brief examples. It has a broad scope of encyclopedic information, sometimes with a surprisingly detailed (but brief) biography of figures like Mao Zedong; some political figures like Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan have related entries that summarize their policies. The book comes with an impressively sturdy slipcase. The book is hefty but not unwieldy, at over 2300 pages. The Collins Fedra fonts are attractive: bold sans serif for headwords and serif for entries, on bright white pages with little bleed-through. The pages are just text--no illustrations of the aardvark, no maps, or tables. Pronunciation is within parentheses and uses IPA based on British pronunciation. Spellings are primarily British with some cross-references: color/colour. But some words are only British spelling: "pitta bread", not "pita". Etymologies at the end of entries are brief but include the century in which a word is first recorded. The dictionary has good sense distinctions and include a large number of compounds and collocations. With "public" there are about four dozen, from "public-address system" to "public-interest group", "public speaking" to "public works". The dictionary does not have many sense distinctions to help the user, e.g. to understand the meanings of "sarcasm" vs. "irony". For "imply" vs "infer", there is a paragraph-long note at "infer". There an occasional usage notes, e.g. under "decimate" it says "One talks about the whole of something being decimated, not a part: disease decimated the population not disease decimated most of the population" (with examples in italics). Summary: a great and up to date reference work, and a great value for the price.

You'd think a dictionary with this many words would have a common literary device defined. Antanaclasis. Polyptoton. Both missing. Seriously? Even their older versions are missing it. Okay, so as offline dictionaries go, this is still my preferred one. It's well-designed and does have all the highschool level words and phrases. You just won't be using this dictionary for higher level literary studies. Specialist dictionaries will need to be on hand, or go with the online ones. It's still a good starting point.

Oxfordの英英辞典を購入したのは２０年近く前になり、英英辞典新調の時季を迎えてしまいました。３６巻セットのOxford英英辞典および2巻簡便セットとを購入した際にはもう新規購入はしなくても良いと思ったのですが・・・英語小説やドイツ語小説の英訳を読んでいると。内容的に不明瞭になってきました。特にVEGAN関係のお料理のレシピ本の場合、英語かドイツ語になり、日本語訳が見つかりません。使われる英語も目新しいものばかりで、手持ちの英英辞典や独英辞典には記述の無いものが目立ってきました。ドイツ語のレシピ本も表紙は英語の表題が使われていますのですが、中身は最新英語と最新ドイツ語が混在しており、独英辞典と英英辞典を併用しています。英語も段々と進歩していますので、日本語訳を待っている時間はありません！