Essential British English Dictionary

Essential British English Dictionary

The Cambridge Essential British English Dictionary is ideal for learners of English who want to build confidence in using an English-only dictionary. It has the words, phrases, and collocations that beginning learners of British English need to know, with easy-to-understand definitions and audio pronunciations, and thousands of carefully chosen example sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus.

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Key features

The Cambridge Essential British English Dictionary is based on original research on the unique Cambridge English Corpus, and includes all the vocabulary that students need to know at CEFR A1–B1 levels from the English Vocabulary Profile.

More than 18,000 simple definitions using words you know
Hear the words spoken in British English
Thousands of real examples show how words are used
Ideal for newer learners of English (CEFR levels A1–B1)
Based on the Cambridge English Corpus — a database of over 2 billion words

Acknowledgements

Chief Editor
Colin McIntosh

Editor
Helen Waterhouse

Word of the Day

twang

UK
/twæŋ/
US
/twæŋ/

a quality of the human voice, produced by air passing out through the nose as you speak

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