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Longman: Your Source for Dictionaries

Longman has a long tradition of publishing the best dictionaries for learners of the English language. You can rely on Longman Dictionaries to provide the clearest definitions because of the Longman Defining Vocabulary, which is used to create all of the definitions in Longman Dictionaries. The Longman Defining Vocabulary comprises 2,000 simple words that the Longman Corpus Network shows to be the most commonly recognized by learners of the English Language.

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