Advanced Dictionary

Advanced Dictionary - Collins Cobuild

The 6th edition, published by HarperCollins in cooperation with Heinle Cengage, appeared in bookstores and on Amazon in late 2008. It has a radically different cover design and a new, shorter name: Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary, but the content is almost identical to the 4th and 5th editions. Here are the main differences: A few fairly useless new entries (e.g. Bluetooth, open-source) that you can look up on Wikipedia The design is nicer, with better paper quality and more colors (see example pages) Some illustrations next to entries (the previous edition only had illustrations in a separate section) For some words, there are “Word Partnership” boxes which give common phrases (collocations) with the word (see example page 1). There are also occasional “Thesaurus” boxes (with synonyms) and “Word Web” boxes (short paragraphs which discuss a topic, e.g. pollution, using many different words related to the subject).