This completely new and original English dictionary is one of the most important books ever published by Collins. It contains some 3 000 000 words and 162 000 references—more than any other single volume dictionary of British English in general use. Collins English Dictionary is, in fact, the first major English-language dictionary on a scale substantially greater than any dictionary in the “concise” category to be originated in Britain since the publication of the Shorter Oxford Dictionary in 1933.
