Product Description

This is the world's bestselling advanced learner's dictionary, recommended by learners of English and their teachers, and used by 30 million people.

NEW 32-page Oxford 3000™ Vocabulary Trainer, only available with the Paperback and CD-ROM edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51863 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

From the Publisher
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Customer Reviews

The Best Dictionary There Is
As a student at the Business College of Copenhagen, studying English/IT, this has be become one of my most important tools. Being both easy to use and containing practically every word in English i could possible think of, this is a book that i would recommend anyone who deals with English on a professional level. But at the same time I would also recommend it to those who think that their english skills are perfect, because thos book will expand even the largest vocabulary!

The book is excellent, but the CD software is not.
The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is excellent, but its companion CD - Oxford Advanced Genie isn't. I wonder if it's just an experimental software or not, it seems not quite professional. The following problems have been found at the first time I was using it:

1. The dictionary window is quite small and cannot be resized. It causes part of content cannot be viewed. For example, when I type the word "landscape", after scrolling down to the Which Word section, there are 3 colomns of nouns that are frequently used adjectives ~landscape~scenery~countryside. But the third column is missing or partly missing even if the font size has been set to small. The same problem happens at Which Word section when I check the word Scottish. Between "... while Scots is only used to describe its people, its law and especially its language:" and "accent", nearly 90 words of text can not be viewed.

2. The e-dictionary can neither tolerate any spelling mistake nor even a wrong case. For example, the "Scottish, Sunday" are correct, but "scottish, sunday" cannot be found, and there isn't any hint for the word you are looking for. I belive that many readers of a dictionary are foreigners. They will often make spelling mistakes as well as use a wrong case! Most e-dictionaries on the market have such function to allow user to make mistake and rather than confuse the user by displaying a "No Result", they gave a list of words with similar spelling. And for wrong case, they just display the right word, not a "No Result".

3. QuickFind dosn't work in some web pages, so I have to copy the text and paste it into the input box of the dictionary. This is quite like a program bug.

4. Phonetic symbol cannot be viewed. If I don't want to install the sound file, as a non-English speaker, I won't be able to know how to read it.

In my point of view, the Oxford Advanced Genie has a long way to go to be a good commercial software.

A world's leading dictionary
I believe it is the world's leading dictionary. Whenever you have a doubt on the English language you can refer to it. It is reliable, up-to-date and easy to use.
Among his useful features I would like to highlight:
-- Up-to-date coverage of both British and American English, written and spoken.
-- A complete reference book, with information on numbers, punctuation,
geographical names, the writing of letters, emails and CVs, irregular verbs, and a useful map section.
-- Easy to use, with rapid-access page design and short cuts to the right meaning in long entries.
-- Full grammar information and many notes show you how to use words in context.
--Topic pages, illustrations, synonyms and opposites help you with vocabulary building.
-- CD-ROM: click on a word, or simply point to it with your cursor in a Web browser, and the dictionary definition will appear in a small window on your desktop.