October 2017: more new words!

We have added another 200 new words and meanings to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary online.

For example:

• What would you describe as identikit?
• Do you use abbreviations like AFAIC, ICYMI or IIRC in your informal writing?
• Have you ever eaten tempeh?

What’s new?

You can now find excerpts from our Oxford Collocations Dictionary inside OALD entries.

Find out more about which words go together, for example:

• in immaculate condition
• a burning issue
• a resounding success

Expand the new red collocations boxes inside OALD entries to find out more!

Word of the Month

This month we’re looking at the new, figurative use of snowflake.

The man who made dictionaries

Did you know that the creator of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary went on to have a successful radio career?

Teaching Resources

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