Longman Dictionary of American English 5 Paper (HE): Industrial Ecology (Longman Dictionary of Amer English) - Softcover

Pearson Education

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447948106 ISBN 13: 9781447948100

Publisher: Pearson Longman, 2014

Synopsis

The 5th edition of this best-selling dictionary helps intermediate students improve their writing with the Collocations feature and offers extra support for those studying other subjects in English. The integrated Thesaurus helps students build their vocabulary. The online dictionary includes innovative functionality to facilitate customizable teaching and learning, and a wealth of customizable practice so that users focus on the words that they want to learn. Students preparing for TOEFL® can also practice their exam skills using the interactive exercises.

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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.

Clear and comprehensive

• 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

Entire contents online

• Pronunciation of all the words and example sentences, and pronunciation practice
  
• Longman Vocabulary Checker: find out which type of vocabulary is used in the text you are reading and which words you should learn
  
• Thesaurus: choose the right word and build your vocabulary
  
• Topic Vocabulary: find all the words you need to write about common topics such as Describing Places, Technology, Sports and Relationships
  
• Academic Study Center with interactive exercises for vocabulary, reading and writing, and exam practice for TOEFL

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Longman
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1447948106
• ISBN 13: 9781447948100
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1368