Product DescriptionAiming to provide a comprehensive dictionary that gets into the heart of the English langauge and helps students and teachers get into the head of the native speaker, this contains over 15,000 cultural entries explaining items such as corner shop, car boot sale and Number ten, together with 80,000 words and phrases, usage notes, language notes, easy grammer codes and a 2000 word defining vocabulary. There is equal coverage of British and American English. In addition, it contains 32 pages of colour illustrations and over 500 b&w illustrations and photographs which aim to provide an insight into life in Britain and America and provide detail that is not found in any other dictionary eg fish and chip shop. There are also 12 special feature pages - full-page essays and information on various aspects of British and American life such as education, weddings, Christmas, law and medicine*Combines a complete language dictionary with 15,000 cultural and encyclopedic entries covering people, places, history, geography, the arts and popular culture *80,000 words and phrases with clear definitions using the 2000-word Longman Defining Vocabulary *NEW Updated feature pages on topics including festivals, special days and key events in British and American history *NEW Now in two colour throughout