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Merriam-Webster’s Advanced Learner’s

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Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

What do you think about it? Does it have any advantages?

   



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08 September 2008 at 7:31am | IP Logged 
I haven't used that particular dictionary, but here's a comparision of the first meanings for "grub" between two
dictionaries I happen to have in my bookshelf:

Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learners:
"A grub is a young insect which has just come out of an egg and looks like a short fat worm."

Oxford Dictionary of English:
"the larva of an insect, especially a beetle"

Another example, this time "elderly":

Collins: "You use elderly as a polite way of saying that someone is old."
Oxford: "(of a person) old or ageing"

The Dictionary for Advanced Learners also has more usage notes and annotations (e.g. cordial: fifth frequency
band, ADJ-GRADED, <> hostile), and the typography is not as busy.
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Please go to this website and say something about it. Thanks!

Which brands of dictionaries?





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