LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

This dictionary has almost all the words teachers and advanced students of English need to look up, including 15,000 encyclopedic and culturally significant words and have been helping foreign students like me comprehend English more easily since first published 1992.
It features as below like the title; English Language - 80,000 words and phrases all the words you need to read English books and newspapers - Clear, direct definitions using the Longman 2000-word Defining Vocabulary - Natural, helpful examples based on real texts - Equal coverage of British and American vocabulary Culture - Over 15,000 cultural and encyclopedic entries - More than 400 cultural notes at entries such as Declaration of Independence and lawyer - Fully illustrated, including over 30 pages of color photos, maps and drawings, which bring the world of English to life.