Oxford Hachette French: English Dictionary

Overview: This is the first French and English dictionary to have been written using electronic corpora: two huge databases of electronic texts, one of current French and the other of current English. Each database contained over 10 million words of language in use. Access to these databases has provided accounts of words and their translations which are always authentic and often revealing. Users of the dictionary can feel confident that translations presented derive from study of real language as it has actually been used in a wide range of contexts. The resulting text provides modern idiomatic coverage of general French and English, with many new words, extensive treatment of colloquial expressions, and thousands of example sentences showing real language in action. A wide range of literary vocabulary has been included, together with vocabulary from the specialized fields of science, business, technology, and medicine.