English Dictionary

[veka]

Hi. I am looking for good (American) English dictionary, or two that complement each other. What would you recommend?

[Anglika]

Welcome to the forums.

For online dictionaries, this is a good place to start: OneLook Dictionary Search

[veka]

Thank you, but online dictionaries are not what I am looking for.

I might purchase The New Oxford American Dictionary. It looks very good.

[veka]

I ran into Collins Cobuild-resource Pack on CD-Rom. Does anyone have opinion of this?

At least it sounds great:

• Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.
• Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage.
• Collins COBUILD English Grammar.
• Thesaurus containing over 130,000 synonyms.
• Quickly retrieve examples of the use of words in real English text, written and spoken from the Word Bank of 5 million words of authentic text samples.