In the 21st century there is a variety of books to choose for the learners of the English language. One of the most useful is a translation dictionary, which is very informative and up-to-date as it is based on the British National Corpus. The two dictionaries of the Oxford University Press: Illustrated and Advanced Learner's, use this database. The aim of this essay is to compare the entries of these two dictionaries: the form, the content and the combinability of a word.

First of all, one of the most important features of a word is the form on which both dictionaries have several similarities but much more differences. To begin with, there are two main resemblances. The dictionaries are British and they both have variant spelling and phonetic transcription. However, there are...