The Word of the Day

As ongoing English teachers we recommend you to visit regularly the section "Word of the the Day" of the Cambridge Dictionaries Online.

Here you will find a word comment every day. It is very interesting because you can discover rare words chosen at random by this dictionary.

Besides, Cambridge Dictionary Online is one of the best English dictionaries online. Once you enter into the main page, you can choose which dictionary want to use. You can choose among Learners, Advanced Learners, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs and American English.

It is very useful because it provides not only the definition but also it gives you the possibility to listen to the pronunciation of the word in the British and Amercian English. Both of them!

What we also like about it is the fact that when you look for the meaning of a word, then on the right side you have a list of words related to the topic of the one you looked for it. For example, if you look for "dazzling", it suggests blinding, bright, brilliant, corucasting, glittering, glossy, light and a large etcetera. Therefore, it provides related words to the topic of the word.

Then, if you scroll down the page, you can find a section named "related topics", and in this case, the topics suggested are related to the qualitites of light, and it suggests topics from the Light and colour topic area such as light, the qualitites of colour, common colours, etc.

If you did not know about it, have a look.. and use it! ;)