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The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English. It is published by HarperCollins in Glasgow. Corpus The dictionary uses language research based on the Collins Corpus, which is continually updated and has over 20 billion words. Editions The current edition is the 14th; it was published on August 31, 2023, with more than 732,000 entries (including proper nouns). The previous edition was the 13th edition, which was published in November 2018. A special "30th Anniversary" 10th edition was published in 2010. Earlier editions were published once every 3 or 4 years.History The edition of the dictionary in 1979 with Patrick Hanks as editor and Laurence Urdang as editorial director, was the first British English dictionary to be typeset from the output from a computer database in a specified format. This meant that every aspect of an entry was handled by a different editor using different forms or templates. Once all the entries for an entry had been assembled, they were passed on to be keyed into the slowly assembled dictionary database which was completed for the typesetting of the first edition. In a later edition, they increasingly used the Bank of English established by John McHardy Sinclair at COBUILD to provide typical citations rather than examples composed by the lexicographer. CollinsDictionary.com The unabridged Collins English Dictionary was published on the web on 31 December 2011 on CollinsDictionary.com, along with the unabridged dictionaries of French, German, Spanish and Italian. The site also includes example sentences showing word usage from the Collins Bank of English Corpus, word frequencies and trends from the Google Ngrams project, and word images from Flickr. In August 2012, CollinsDictionary.com introduced crowd-sourcing for neologisms, whilst still maintaining overall editorial control to remain distinct from Wiktionary and Urban Dictionary. This followed an earlier launch of a discussion forum for neologisms in 2004.In May 2015, CollinsDictionary.com added 6,500 new Scrabble words to their Collins Official Scrabble Wordlist. The words are based on terms related to and influenced by slang, social media, food, technology, and more. References External links CollinsDictionary.com – Collins English Dictionary, American English Dictionary, Thesaurus. Discover the Collins Dictionaries popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Collins Dictionaries books.
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Collins Turkish Phrasebook and Dictionary Gem Edition
Collins DictionariesYou will never be lost for words in your travels around Turkey again! Your ideal travel companion will ensure that you can say what you need in Turkish with ease and confidence.Rel...
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Collins French Visual Dictionary
Collins DictionariesA photographic guide to the key words and phrases in French. This attractive little book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to France and French language ...
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Collins Cobuild English Grammar
Collins CobuildThis major new edition of the Collins COBUILD English Grammar is a modern, global and learnerfocussed grammar reference, aimed at learners and teachers of English.Thoroughly update...
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Collins Gem Latin American Spanish Phrasebook and Dictionary
Collins DictionariesThe market's most indispensable phrasebook and dictionary has been reinvented for ereaders and is better than ever. With the most uptodate travel information, easytoread page desig...
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Easy Learning Spanish Verbs
Collins DictionariesPerfect for Spanish revision offering beginners a clear and easytounderstand guide to Spanish verbs.The main section of the book consists of 120 fully conjugated verbs, regular and...
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Arabic Visual Dictionary
Collins DictionariesA photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Arabic. This attractive ebook is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to the Arabic language, world and cu...
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Collins Very First Irish Dictionary
Collins DictionariesAn ideal first Irish dictionary for young kids aged 6 and above, designed to introduce Irish vocabulary to children in a fun, easy and memorable way.This dictionary introduces chil...
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Collins Gem Croatian Phrasebook and Dictionary
Collins DictionariesThe market's most indispensable phrasebook and dictionary has been reinvented for ereaders and is better than ever. With the most uptodate travel information, easytoread page desig...
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Italian Visual Dictionary
Collins DictionariesA photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Italian. This attractive ebook is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Italy and Italian language and c...
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Easy Learning Italian Verbs
Collins DictionariesPerfect for Italian revision offering beginners a clear and easytounderstand guide to Italian verbs.The main section of the book consists of 120 fully conjugated verbs, regular and...
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Easy Learning French Vocabulary
Collins DictionariesDesigned for learners of French of all ages, whether you are learning at school, in an evening class, for business or to go on holiday. Easy to use: gives you all the words you nee...
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Interesting Stories about Curious Words
Susie DentJoin Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS,...
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Easy Learning Irish Verbs
Dr. A. J. Hughes & Collins DictionariesThis book offers Irish learners a clear and easytounderstand guide to Irish verbs to help in their exam revision.Designed for all those learning Irish at school, work or home. The ...
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Collins Japanese Visual Dictionary
Collins DictionariesA photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Japanese. This attractive ebook is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Japan and Japanese language and...
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Collins Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook and Dictionary Gem Edition
Collins DictionariesYou will never be lost for words in your travels around China again! Your ideal travel companion will ensure that you can say what you need in Chinese with ease and confidence.Reli...
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Spanish Visual Dictionary
Collins DictionariesA photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Spanish. This attractive ebook is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Spain and Spanish language and c...
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Active English Grammar
Collins CobuildThe Collins COBUILD Active English Grammar offers intermediate learners of English a quick and easytouse reference guide to the most important points in English Grammar.Illustrated...
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English Usage
Collins CobuildThe new second edition of the Collins COBUILD English Usage has been specially designed for upperintermediate and advanced students and teachers of English. Its comprehensive cover...
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Botany
CollinsThe language of botany from plant structure to genetic modification defined and explained for students of plant sciences and botanical enthusiastsThe dictionary,with over 4,000 ent...
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Economics
Dr. Christopher PassA comprehensive guide to Economics for students in all related fields.This fourth edition of the popular and bestselling Collins Dictionary of Economics has been thoroughly revised...
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Metaphors Be With You
Dr. Mardy GrotheRespected quotation anthologist and author of Oxymoronica and Viva la Repartee Dr. Mardy Grothe is at his best in Metaphors Be with You, an A to Z dictionary of 2,750 of history’s ...
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Collins Gem Italian Phrasebook and Dictionary
Collins DictionariesSound and speak like a native. Collins Gem Italian Phrasebook & Dictionary is ideal for practising pronunciation, listening comprehension and becoming more confident, not just ...
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Collins Japanese Dictionary and Phrasebook Gem Edition
Collins DictionariesYou will never be lost for words in your travels around Japan again! Your ideal travel companion will ensure that you can say what you need in Japanese with ease and confidence.Rel...
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Collins Gem Arabic Phrasebook and Dictionary
Collins DictionariesWith stunning new design and layout and the most uptodate travel information, the market's most indispensable phrasebook and dictionary has been reinvented for ebook readers, and i...
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Easy Learning Spanish Idioms
CollinsA unique guide to communicating in Spanish. It will help learners discover expressions and idioms to make their Spanish more natural and fluent, while developing an awareness of Sp...
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Collins Portuguese Phrasebook and Dictionary Gem Edition
Collins DictionariesYou will never be lost for words in your travels around Portugal and the Portuguese islands again! Your ideal travel companion will ensure that you can say what you need in Portugu...
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Easy Learning Italian Vocabulary
Collins DictionariesThe quickest way to study the essential Italian words and the perfect companion to titles in the everpopular Easy Learning Italian range.Designed for learners of Italian of all age...
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Collins Rhyming Dictionary
Rosalind FergussonThe Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhyming dictionaries are characterised by the use of obscure words for padding, subsecti...
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Vietnamese Visual Dictionary
Collins DictionariesA photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Vietnamese. This attractive pocketsized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Vietnam and Vietna...
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Mandarin Chinese Visual Dictionary
Collins DictionariesA photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Chinese. This attractive ebook is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to China and Chinese language and c...
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Collins French Phrasebook and Dictionary Gem Edition
Collins DictionariesYou will never be lost for words in your travels around France again! Your ideal travel companion will ensure that you can say what you need in French with ease and confidence.Reli...
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Collins English Thesaurus Essential
Collins Dictionaries<p>The home of trusted English dictionaries and thesauruses for everyday language use.<br/> The perfect word reference for daily use. With over 300,000 synonyms and ant...
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German Visual Dictionary
Collins DictionariesA photographic guide to the key words and phrases in German. This attractive ebook is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Germany and German language and c...
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Collins GEM English Thesaurus
Collins Dictionaries<p>The home of trusted English dictionaries and thesauruses for everyday language use.<br/> This ebook is part of the Collins Gem range – the world's bestselling mi...
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Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus Essential
Collins Dictionaries<p>The home of trusted English dictionaries and thesauruses for everyday language use.</p> <p>The perfect word reference for daily use. Specially tailored to mee...
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Collins Latin Language and Roman Culture
CollinsAs straightforward and easy to follow as a Roman road, this is the most accessible guide to both the language and the literature of one of the greatest empires the world has known....
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Thai Visual Dictionary
Collins DictionariesA photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Thai. This attractive pocketsized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Thailand and Thai langua...
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Collins Dictionary Of Surnames
Leslie DunklingDictionary of Surnames is the definitive guide to the origin and meaning of British surnames by one of Britain’s leading authority on names.The essential A–Z companion to the study...
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Korean Visual Dictionary
Collins DictionariesA photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Korean. This attractive pocketsized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Korea and Korean langu...