Author: Oxford Languages
English 
Published 10/05/2012 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS         in the United Kingdom 
Paperback | 1024 pages
This fully updated edition offers over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a databank of 21st century English, containing over 2 billion words.The Factfinder centre section gives quick-reference entries on topics including famous people, countries, and science.