which dicionary

[Gość: tsar]

I'm going to buy one - my 7-year old Dictionary of Contemporary English is
almost in pieces ;)
Please, give me piece of advice - which dicionary do you prefer? I mean, what
are your personal feelings? The level is more or less advanced (I even took
the CAE exam this year;)
I skim through few dicionaries in a bookshop, and the macmillan dictionary
(in red cover) looked preety nice to me. What do you think about it?
thanks in advance...

[Gość: loczki]

My teachers recommended macmillan...so I bought it. How dumb I was;)
I truly regret now:( cambridge is much better because it has more exaples of
words in sentences or phrases. In macmillan you can find an exaple of "girl" in
a sentence, but when it comes to more complicated terms very often there are no
exaples at all!

[Gość: as]

I have OXFORD Advances Learner's Dictonary. I can recommend it h all my heart.
It is clear, detailed and every word and phrase are illustrated with examples.

[abere8]

This is my second attempt at posting here. Grrr...!

I've had the Dictionary of Contemporary English for over 8 years now (in
hardback) and I still think it's the best English dictionary I've ever used. My
advice would therefore be to buy another copy of the same dictionary :-) I've
used Oxford's Advanced English Dictionary but it's not the same (although the
language level is similar). I don't really like the layout there.

PS. Should I say hi to everyone? It's my first post here and I think I'll be
coming back :-)

[Gość: asica74]

hello abere8, my friend! you are not alone here!

[lalka74]

I really liked my old Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - the hard
cover one, so I guess 2 years ago I bought a new edition of it, and I still
liked it, but recently I got sth I love - that is new Longman - they call it
The Living Dictionary and it is perfect. Simultanously I have been using Oxford
and Webster and definitely nothing can beat Longman :)
So, go ahead and get yourself one, you will not regret it.

[flynn]

I also recommend Longman dictionary - it's truly very good. But on-line version
of Cambridge dictionary is also good - I found it very useful when I had to
look up Australian English words. Here's the link
dictionary.cambridge.org/
Flynn