MacMillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners

It is the most extensive dictionary ever seen that is written not for native speakers. In an
amazingly short period, the MacMillan has produced this Advanced Dictionary. MacMillan
is an international recognized publisher of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference works.
The Dictionary has definitions that are often brilliantly simple and the definitions are written
to be easily understood. The dictionary was conceived, compiled, and edited by the
Reference and Electronic Media Division of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. The definitions
have been based on information derived from the 200 000 000 words of English which make
up the World English Corpus.
Editor-in-chief: Michael Rundell
Associated Editor: Gwyneth Fox
Michael Rundell has been a lexicographer since 1980, after a not very brilliant career as
an academic then English language teacher. He got into the dictionary business by accident.
Apart from writing dictionaries, he is learning Spanish when he gets the time, and is active
in local politics He also likes movies, walking, and watching cricket, and e is the author
of The Wisden Dictionary of Cricket (2007).
Gwyneth Fox- started as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language in the domain of
applied linguistics lecturer and then turned lexicographer. She was in on the very first day of
the famous Co-build project, and worked on it for 17 years, running the project for the last 7
or 8 of those years as Publishing Director. All this happened in Birmingham. All the time she
continued to do some lecturing, which she did more of for a couple of years after having left
Co-build in 1998.
Classification of the Dictionary
-Monolingual-written only in one language.
-Large-Explanatory (gives an additional information )
-Alphabetical (the words are arranged alphabetically)
The Dictionary contains on the first pages the names of the contributors, project team,
consultants, roman numerals, number that are entries, contents, foreword. At the end there

are some pages including grammar codes, pronunciation guide and labels. The dictionary
has 1692 pages.
Using the Dictionary
-Some words have more than one entry because they belong to a different word class. The
small number at the end of the headwords tells you that there is more than one entry for this
word.
-Compound words are separate entries in the alphabetical list.
-Some words are shown at the end of the entry for the word from which they are derived.
-There is a list class of word classes on the inside front cover (verb, noun, adverb etc.)
-Some words are often used in idioms or other fixed expressions. These expressions are
shown at the end of the main entry.
-Many words have more than one meaning. They are shown as separate senses with
numbers.
-Entries with five or more meanings have a menu at the top to make it easier to find the
specific meaning you are looking for.
-There are some illustrations for some words.
-Provides simple indexes or menu to the longer entries which will help you to get more
quickly to the sense of the word you need. It will help to find the right word for you purpose
and should reduce the number of occasions when you accidentally use the wrong expression.

One of the most major innovations of the MacMillan English Dictionary is to make a
clear distinction between the core vocabulary of English-which many users will need to
encode as well as decode . It have been identified a central core of around 7500 words
that most likely to be needed by students work in both receptive and productive modes.
These words such as absorb, credit, decision etc. appear in red type with a star rating or
show their frequency and the explanation are broken up into easy to read paragraphs.
Another of the MacMillan Dictionary innovation is that two similar but separate editions
have been created from the same database: one for learners whose main target variety is
American English the other for learners of British English.