Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary
The Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary from HarperCollins, first published in 1987 is a dictionary that distinguished itself by providing definitions in full sentences rather than excerpted phrases. Example sentences are given for almost every meaning of every word, drawn from a large corpus of actual usage.
Except for the 6th edition, it included phonetic transcriptions based on the International Phonetic Alphabet. In some editions, a digital version on CD-ROM was included with the dictionary in book form.
The CCAD seems to skimp on American English, but there is its equivalent titled Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of American English.Editions
- First edition published in 1987 as Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary
- Second edition published in 1995 as Collins COBUILD Learner's Dictionary
- Third published in 2001 as Collins COBUILD English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
- Fourth published in 2003 as Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
- Fifth published in 2006
- Sixth edition published in 2008 as Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary
- Seventh edition published in 2012 as Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of English
- Eighth edition published in 2014 as Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- Ninth edition published in 2018
