This page gives you access to the massive resources of the Cambridge University Press Online Dictionary. Enter one word that you wish to search for in the box below. For example, to search for the idiom eat like a horse, type either eat or horse.

Other useful places to search for words in action:

Bank of English - the Collins COBUILD website

This site lets you do a simple search of the University of Birmingham's 400 million word computer database taken from newspapers, magazines, books, recorded speech and many other sources. The computer will display a sample of all the contexts in which a word is found. You can also compile lists of words which go together very frequently or significantly.

British National Corpus

The British National Corpus (BNC) at Oxford University is a 100 million word database taken from books, magazines, newspapers and other sources from the 1990s.

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Word of the Week

Fascinating insights into living language, complete with interesting follow-up activities.

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