– English Dictionary Complete and Unabridged edition with slipcase: More than 732,000 words meanings and phrases (Collins Complete and Unabridged)

Old school way of seeing definitions!

£35 for a book of this size in a slip cover is great value. The pages are quite thin but they are cramming a lot into a single edition. The type is not offensively small. A dictionary and certainly a printed one will never contain ALL the latest words but there is a surprising amount of colloquial and internet content: NSFW, tl;dr, peng. The current war has influenced the way we spell Ukrainian place names and they are updated here, eg Kyiv. I was glad to see that it seems no words have been redefined for political purposes as they sadly have been in some other dictionaries. The only downside really is the thinness of the pages as I already mentioned and sometimes a word will seen to not be in the dictionary but then you find it under a headword. Thus there is no entry for sexist or sexism but they are included under sex. When it comes to potentially offensive words they are in there so this could not be considered a "school dictionary" though whether you would consider it "suitable for children" is down to the individual. As a final note I was personally happy to see that "semierect" made it in.

Bought as a present for my 89 year old Dad who loves cryptic crosswords but, when he thinks he's solved a clue, it's often a word he's unsure of. Not any more, this reference volume is the answer. The only criticism is, the volume is so complete, the typeface is very small, sometimes requiring a magnifying glass to read.

I had bought this same dictionary 2 years ago when it was sold without a box sleeve. It is a fragile book just because of the number of pages in a single book. The pages are necessarily very thin, think bible pages! the spine is also not brilliantly robust so the box sleeve is a great addition. I play a lot of scrabble with my brother and we use the dictionary every game. It is great to have such a huge number of words in one volume. I have docked one star because the book arrived with a section of pages that had been creased, probably in manufacture. If I had picked it up in a shop I would have put it down and chosen another copy. However, you will find it is impossible to use this very heavy book without damaging the ultra thin pages! It needs to be handled with care..... this is not a dictionary for children.

Superb dictionary. All my other dictionaries are quite old. This edition is 2023, so brings me up to date. Large volume as they all are, printed in India it says, good work, very clear typeface. excellent binding, lays with pages almost flat. Comes in rigid slipcase which is good protection. I see several buyers commented about the thin paper. Fairly normal for this type of book, not really a problem unless you are very hamfisted !

I use this all the time and find it really helpful. I have it in hardback and Kindle versions. Has never let me down, has a really good coverage of words and meanings for everyday use.

I find the words in this dictionary that others don't have.

Originally purchased when it came out in 2023, it has not let me down in the 2 years since. I've just bought another copy for my best friend's daughter (aged 10) who, like us, is a bibliophile. I've just looked up eleemosynary - who'd have thought that would come up in a children's book (Meg Cabot's 'The Princess Diaries: 2 - Take Two', page 185)? eleemosynary adj 1 of, concerned with, or dependent on charity 2 given as an act of charity [C17: from Church Latin eleemosyna ALMS] The pronunciation - not shown here - contains characters from the phonetic alphabet I can't reproduce here. There is a preface that shows the necessary characters and how they are pronounced. This is the 14th edition. Given that the 13th edition was released in 2018, it might be a while before it is updated again.