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The home of trusted French dictionaries for everyday language learning The world's leading large French to English and English to French dictionary, a joint collaboration between Collins and Le Robert, revised and updated to cover all the latest vocabulary in both languages - perfect for professionals and advanced learners of French. With more than 310,000 words, meanings, and phrases and 500,000 translations. This edition has been revised to include all the latest vocabulary from a wide range of fields, including new additions from the fields of the Internet, the environment, and economics. Culture boxes explain the origins of phrases from literature, film and popular culture to aid translation and improve your understanding of French popular culture. Long and complex entries benefit from a clear structure and layout, with key phrases, idioms and set grammatical structures highlighted. Acclaimed "Language in Use" supplement contains hundreds of examples of usage in real-life contexts such as essay writing, email and telephone conversations to help you use French fluently and naturally. Includes detailed color maps of the English and French-speaking worlds.