Cambridge International Dictionary of English was published in 1995 and then published under the name Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, by the Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-88541-8). It has references to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained. It is updated with new vocabulary that has come into English language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable). It is targeted towards advanced EFL\ESL learners.
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Famous quotes containing the words cambridge, advanced, learner and/or dictionary:
“For Cambridge people rarely smile,
Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
“In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds ... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)
“If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be “To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one’s own writings in translation.””
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)