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Macmillan Dictionary: a smart online dictionary

Macmillan Dictionary has all the answers in one place.

English is a global language: it’s the language of education, business, and science. Being a confident user of English isn’t just a matter of knowing what words mean – there’s so much more to it than that! Whether you’re a teacher or a student there’s a whole range of language questions you might want to ask.

How do I use it in a sentence with-out getting the grammar wrong?

I know this noun, but what’s a good adjective to go with it?

I don’t want to keep using the same word – how can I find its synonyms?

Is this word important enough to be worth learning at all?

Is it OK to say this without sounding impolite or old-fashioned or just too informal?

This word has six meanings – how can I find the one I’m looking for?

How do I say this word?

Macmillan Dictionary: a smart online dictionary The smart choice for teachers and students. Macmillan Dictionary makes learning, using and understanding English…

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How smart is Macmillan Dictionary? Let’s do the 10-step test.

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Common phrases

The dictionary shares thousands of common phrases too. If you’ve looked in the Thesaurus for smart, you’ll see that bright is one of its near synonyms. Follow the link from bright and you’ll see eight phrases all involving the word bright.

• look on the bright side to think about the good parts of a situation that is mostly bad Look on the bright side – you’ll save money by not going.

• bright and breezy livelyandconfident Their music is bright and breezy but not very memorable.

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Related words

OK, so what other words mean the same sort of thing as smart? What are its synonyms? The thesaurus will tell you:

wise

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Red word and stars system

Smart is a red word, which means that it’s part of the ‘core vocabulary’ of English – the 7,500 words that make up about 93% of all communication. What’s more it has three stars (red words can have one, two, or three stars) which means it’s one of the 2,500 most common words in English. So this makes smart a really important word to know.

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Real examples

You’ll find plenty of example sentences and they’re all real examples used by real people in real contexts.

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Pronunciation Now, you probably know how to pronounce smart and bright but how do you pronounce incisive, for example? And is it pronounced the same in British and American English? The dictionary will tell you.

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Pronunciation

/ɪnˈsaɪsɪv/

Add your own voice

Maybe there’s a word you’d like to add. It could be a brand-new word that we don’t have yet, or a word that you use in your part of the world. Add it to the Open Dictionary.

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Games Play a word game on your own or in class that challenges your knowledge of things like phrasal verbs, irregular verbs, common words and collocations.

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Staying up-to-date English is changing and growing all the time. We constantly update the dictionary to reflect these changes, adding new words and phrases as they appear.

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Sharing knowledge

And of course you can share any of the words you’ve looked up with your Facebook friends, your Twitter followers and the rest of the world.

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10 Network Pop next door to the Macmillan Dictionary Blog, where language experts, language teachers and other word-loving types discuss language trends and usage issues, give language learning tips and share their knowledge with learners and teachers.

www.macmillandictionaryblog.com

Maximise your language learning experience by adding Macmillan Dictionary onto your browser, blog or website.

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The toolbar gadget allows you to search for a word in Macmillan Dictionary just by typing it into your regular browser search box.

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Buzzword gadget.

Add the BuzzWord gadget to your website and students will stay right on top of new words and current English language trends. The weekly BuzzWord is chosen by Kerry Maxwell, author of Brave New Words, for its current popularity in the news and other media. It comes with an in-depth article and, once a month, a worksheet for use in class.

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Personal search box

Add the Macmillan Dictionary search box to your websites, so if anyone on your site comes across a word they don’t understand they can simply type it into the search box and get what they need straight away.

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Double-click function

Try this powerful gadget – the dictionary’s double-click function. The double-click means that users can click on any word on a page with this widget installed and immediately get a definition on their screens. Now that’s useful!

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Pronunciation app

We wouldn’t be a smart dictionary without offering smart apps. Sounds is a brilliant pronunciation app, available for iOS and Android. New for 2014: try the embedded Macmillan Dictionary wordlist with short definitions in the Sounds app.

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Sharing content with our API

If you’re developing word games, educational apps, language-learning websites or other English-related digital applications, the Macmillan Dictionary API allows you to use our dictionary content in your product in the manner you choose.

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What is considered intelligent varies with culture. For example, when asked to sort, the Kpelle people take a functional approach. A Kpelle participant stated, “The knife goes with the orange because it cuts it.”

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1 goodatthinkingclearlyandquickly,atunderstandingdiffcult ideasandsubjects,andatgainingandusingknowledge Surely an intelligent person like you can deal with this. highly intelligent: He was highly intelligent, but disliked studying

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