The Fifth Edition of Longman Dictionary of American English is the key to vocabulary building! Now with the full contents online, plus online Thesaurus and Vocabulary Checker.

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- 109,000 words, meanings and phrases, including words from the Academic Word List.

- 59,000 example sentences, showing thousands of academic words and collocations.

- Clear definitions written using the Longman American Defining .

- Vocabulary of just 2,000 common words.

- Words for content areas such as Science and Social Studies.

The key to vocabulary building

- Collocation boxes show combination of words that are often used together, such as strong interest, highly successful, and take a test.

- Integrated Thesaurus explains thousands of synonyms and antonyms.

- 3,000 etymologies explain the origin of words -15,000 etymologies online.

-Learner's Handbook on Writing, Collocations and Grammar.

- Workbook exercises for self-study and classroom use