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Oxford Dictionary of English

The foremost single-volume authority on the English language - revised and updated in 2010 to include the very latest vocabulary. This version comes with 75 000 high-quality audio pronunciations from the Oxford Sound Bank, making this the definitive English dictionary reference.

Features include:

• 350 000 words, phrases and meanings
• 67 000 usage examples
• 75 000 audio pronunciations
• 11 000 encyclopedic entries
• 550 usage notes
• Includes word list of 280 000 entries for word finding and use with Crossword Compiler

The Oxford Dictionary of English is at the forefront of language research, focusing on English as it is used today, informed by the most up-to-date evidence from the largest language research programme in the world, including the 800-million-word Oxford English Corpus.

The download size is about 140MB (you can also order a CD-ROM).