Longman Basic English Dictionary

''For students at a pre-intermediate level''.

Specially researched and written to meet the real needs of students of English. The 95,000 words and phrases are defined using only the 2,000 most common English words, and illustrated with 36,000 examples of real usage. The 3,500 most important words are highlighted, and 3,000 thesaurus boxes explain synonyms and antonyms. Includes a Learner's Handbook on writing, grammar, and communication.

Gives clear, understandable definitions of all the words students need at pre-intermediate level, with lots of examples, colour pictures and usage notes.

" Gives clear, understandable definitions of all the words students need at pre-intermediate level, with lots of examples, colour pictures and usage notes"-- publisher website - (October 2006).

This dictionary covers a wide range of vocabulary - over 1,000 words and phrases. Its definitions are written within a defining vocabulary of 1600 words in order to be easy to understand, and the usage notes are based on the evidence of students' writing from the Longman Learners' Corpus, allowing Longman lexicographers to identify the needs of students at this level. The dictionary is also fully illustrated and contains a full guide to using the dictionary, so that young learners can make the most of its features.