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About the Macmillan School Dictionary

Book: This area offers an overview of the Macmillan School Dictionary, and includes sample pages and the introduction to the dictionary.

CD-ROM: Here you’ll find FAQs and guides to using the CD-ROM.

Reviews: Read the glowing reviews and comments from academics, teachers and teacher trainers.

Corpus: Discover how a database of more than 200 million words of written and spoken text, plus a 20-million-word database of hundreds of school textbooks and exam syllabuses provides the foundations of the dictionary.

Choosing a dictionary: What size? How new? CD-ROM or no CD-ROM? Find the answers to these questions and more here.

Buying the MSD: All the information you need to find your local distributor. You can even buy online in our secure bookshop.

Other dictionaries: The Macmillan School Dictionary is not the only dictionary published by Macmillan…

Creating the MSD

Author profiles: Meet the authors, editors and advisers who have contributed to the book, CD-ROM and this website.

How the MSD was written: June Hassall, the Editorial Consultant, explains the process.

Resources & Activities

Dictionary skills: Tips for developing dictionary and other skills from the experts.

CD-ROM tips: Discover how the remarkable power of the CD-ROM can make teaching and studying easier.

Games: Interactive versions of dictionary activities.

Glossaries: What does collocation mean? What’s a minimal pair? What are JPEGs, MP3s and PDFs? Find the answers in our glossaries of terminology used in dictionaries, ELT, the Internet and texting.

New Words: Here you can read a short article about a new word or phrase each week.

Competition: Keep visiting this page for regularly posted competitions.

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