In keeping with COBUILD’s long-established, user-friendly tradition, this new edition will help you to understand not only the meanings of words, but also how to use them properly in context. The inclusion of a wealth of new words and meanings taken from areas such as social media, technology, and popular culture means that the Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of American English, English/Korean continues to reflect today’s English. The thousands of example sentences taken from the Collins Corpus ensure that language is shown in a meaningful context.

Korean summaries are added to the meanings of words, idioms, and phrasal verbs, and complete Korean translations are added to the examples. When you search for the word “食べる”, you will find various verbs that differ depending on what you eat and how you eat.

For this edition, we have updated and included hundreds of interesting and informative language features which will help you to acquire an even better understanding of how real English works. These features include detailed information about collocation, word history, and usage.

Synonyms are shown at key entries, each with a lively, up-to-date example, taken from the Collins Corpus. The example will give you a clear idea of the context in which that particular synonym typically appears in English. The numbers refer to the particular meaning within the main entry. To find out more about each synonym, go to that word in the dictionary. The synonyms feature allows you to browse the dictionary, expanding your vocabulary as you go.

Collocations panels show you which words are typically used together. For example, we might talk about ‘glorious weather’ or ‘lovely weather’, but if the noun we want to use is ‘experience’, we would be more likely to talk about a ‘memorable experience’ or a ‘rewarding experience’. The numbers refer to the particular meaning within the main entry.A knowledge of collocations will help you to sound natural and fluent when you are speaking and writing in English.

Usage notes give tips on avoiding common learner errors in grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. These include uncountable nouns that learners often mistakenly use as if they were countable, typical preposition errors, and commonly confused words. Browse the dictionary for these invaluable notes and find out how to avoid all the most frequent mistakes in English.

Word histories tell you where certain words come from and how they have changed in meaning over the years. For example, did you know that the word ‘slogan’ comes from a Gaelic word meaning ‘war cry’? Or that the word ‘hippopotamus’ comes from the Greek for ‘river horse’? Finding out the history of a word can be fascinating and sometimes surprising, and the images and ideas formed in our minds can help us to remember the word we have learnt about.