Collins English Dictionary

Collins English Dictionary

Download: $14.99 (as of 04/27/2014 23:02 PST)

English

The home of living English
The largest single volume dictionary in print celebrates the extraordinary breadth and changing nature of world English, containing 80,000 new look-up words, and 100,000 new meanings.

The dictionary is drawn from the Collins Corpus, the largest in the world with more than 4.5 billion words, and combined with a selection of emerging words submitted by the public via the award-winning collinsdictionary.com, the Collins English Dictionary is a democratic snapshot of real English as it is spoken today around the world.
Word lovers, word gamers, word geeks. At work, at home and at school.
All will be drawn in by evolving definitions, new, rare and quirky words. Explore the ever-changing landscape of the English language with award-winning author Mark Forsyth’s insights in which he casts an analytical eye over the latest fields and shifts in meaning that the dictionary reflects. In an innovation that will delight word gamers and crossword solvers, the Collins English Dictionary also now uniquely includes words previously only found in the official Scrabble™ word list.

Compatibility & Functionality

• Basic Text Search works on all Kindle devices
• Index lookup works on all Kindles except Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD
• Setting as Default Dictionary works on all Kindles except Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD and Kindle for Android

Features
• headword search integrates with the Kindle search functionality (check compatibility above)
• all elements of the dictionary entries are displayed
• pronunciation symbols (IPA) are shown as images
• cross-references are hyperlinks for quick navigation
• linked to our most comprehensive English Thesaurus
• entries contains hyperlinks to related words
You can set this dictionary as your default Kindle dictionary and look up words while reading (check compatibility above). The default setting is The New Oxford American Dictionary included on your Kindle, but you have the option to change your default setting to this compatible dictionary after purchase, so long as your Kindle supports this functionality.

• Rank: #509520 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-10-09
• Released on: 2014-10-09