The Premier English dictionary from Collins is now available for FREE on Android!
- Collins Cobuild Learner's Dictionary Online
- Collins Cobuild Student Dictionary Online
- Collins Cobuild Dictionary Download
The dictionary also provides extensive help with grammar, including grammar patterns for many of the examples, and a grammar reference in the supplement. The Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary provides invaluable and detailed guidance on the English language, and is the complete reference tool for learners of English. Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary Free Download This new edition of the Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary offers comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the most important English idioms from around the world.
A rich source of words for everyone who loves language, Collins Dictionary is both comprehensive and authoritative with its 123,000 words and 200,000 definitions based on the Collins Word Web - an unrivaled and constantly updated 2.5 billion-word database of today's English.
Inside, you'll find outstanding coverage of world, regional and dialect English, with definitions, examples, idioms and usage notes. Included are usage notes to give advice on using the right word in the right place, as well as thousands of etymologies that trace the roots of modern English.
Premium users looking for even better word coverage can upgrade their product to the largest single-volume English dictionary – the Collins English Dictionary Complete Unabridged (available as an in-app purchase), features over 722,000 words and phrases, audio pronunciations*, offline usage, and no ads.
NEW! Translate words in any other Android app with the Tap to Translate feature, and do it in style with any of the four colorful new themes. The wizard of oz.
Collins Cobuild Learner's Dictionary Online
Also includes advanced search and language tools that have become the staple of quality language apps from MobiSystems, Inc.
SEARCH TOOLS - effortlessly find words thanks to a clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface. Designed to provide the most comprehensive search experience the dictionary combines several search tools to match or suggest what you are looking for, including:
- Search autocomplete helps find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type
- Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases
- Looking for a specific word but don't know how it's spelled? We've got you covered with our automatic ‘Fuzzy filter' to correct word spelling, as well as ‘Wild card' ('*' or '?') to replace a letter or entire parts of a word
- Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results
- Use our Voice search when you don't know how an entry is spelled.
- Share word definitions via installed apps on your device
- NEW! Tap to Translate entries in other apps
- Share word definitions via installed apps on your device menus.
- Designed to give you the freedom to structure your studies the way you see fit the 'Favorites' option allows you to create custom folders with lists of words from the vast library of entries
- ‘Recent' list to easily review looked-up words
- Learn a new word every day with our ‘Word of the day' option
- Home screen widget provides random words at a glance
- Split screen support for Android 7 allowing you to use dictionary together with other apps
- Permanently unlock the complete features list
- Offline mode - look up words without an internet connection
- Premium Support – Get expedited support for any app-related issues
- Ad-free
When the first COBUILD dictionary was published in 1987, it revolutionized dictionaries for learners. It was the first of a new generation of dictionaries that were based on real examples of English rather than on compilers' intuition – the type of English that people speak and write every day.
NEW! Translate words in any other Android app with the Tap to Translate feature, and do it in style with any of the four colorful new themes. The wizard of oz.
Collins Cobuild Learner's Dictionary Online
Also includes advanced search and language tools that have become the staple of quality language apps from MobiSystems, Inc.
SEARCH TOOLS - effortlessly find words thanks to a clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface. Designed to provide the most comprehensive search experience the dictionary combines several search tools to match or suggest what you are looking for, including:- Search autocomplete helps find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type
- Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases
- Looking for a specific word but don't know how it's spelled? We've got you covered with our automatic ‘Fuzzy filter' to correct word spelling, as well as ‘Wild card' ('*' or '?') to replace a letter or entire parts of a word
- Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results
- Use our Voice search when you don't know how an entry is spelled.
- Share word definitions via installed apps on your device
- NEW! Tap to Translate entries in other apps
- Share word definitions via installed apps on your device menus.
- Designed to give you the freedom to structure your studies the way you see fit the 'Favorites' option allows you to create custom folders with lists of words from the vast library of entries
- ‘Recent' list to easily review looked-up words
- Learn a new word every day with our ‘Word of the day' option
- Home screen widget provides random words at a glance
- Split screen support for Android 7 allowing you to use dictionary together with other apps
- Permanently unlock the complete features list
- Offline mode - look up words without an internet connection
- Premium Support – Get expedited support for any app-related issues
- Ad-free
When the first COBUILD dictionary was published in 1987, it revolutionized dictionaries for learners. It was the first of a new generation of dictionaries that were based on real examples of English rather than on compilers' intuition – the type of English that people speak and write every day.
Now, more than 20 years later, we've decided to take another revolutionary step and make the COBUILD dictionary available online for free!
www.collinsdictionary.com is the COBUILD Dictionary's new online home. By clicking on the ‘English for Learners' tab, you'll find definitions and examples specifically geared towards English language learners. The dictionary is perfect for demonstrating vocabulary to your class on the Smart Board, or to look up new words.
What does COBUILD mean? Watch the video below to find out.
How can the COBUILD Dictionary online help learners of English?
Frequent words
About 90% of spoken and written English is made up of approximately 3,500 words. These words are the most important ones for learners of English to remember. All the words on www.collinsdictionary.com are therefore ranked by the ‘word frequency' bar on the right-hand side of the page, which tells the user how frequent a word is.
Changing meanings
www.collinsdictionary.com tells us how the meanings of words change over time. The word cloud, for example, was mainly used in its meteorological sense before 2008. In recent years, cloud, in the sense of web-based storage for files, has become frequent along with new collocations (cloud computing) and new phrases (in the cloud). To help learners, the COBUILD dictionary online always shows the most common sense of each word first.
Practising pronunciation Saraswatichandra star plus full episode download.
Find definitions of several pairs of words that are visually similar but pronounced differently on collinsdictionary.com – ‘through' and ‘though', perhaps – and ask your students to listen to the pronunciation of each word on the site. Then project various definitions on the board and invite students to pronounce the words correctly in front of the whole class. You could divide students into teams and allocate points to give the activity a competitive edge!
Collins Cobuild Student Dictionary Online
Understanding British and American English
To demonstrate differences between British and American English, you could show students a selection of words that have different spellings in American English, e.g. colour, centre, etc., and instruct them to use the website to discover the American spelling. This might be particularly useful to Business English students.
Collins Cobuild Dictionary Download
DON'T FORGET! Our COBUILD dictionaries and grammar books are also available in print form! Have a look at the COBUILD page on our website for more information.
