Shogakukan-Oxford English-Japanese Collocations Dictionary for students of English

The Shogakukan-Oxford English-Japanese Collocations Dictionary for students of English is the Japanese edition of the Oxford Collocations Dictionary for students of English. While maintaining the features and value of the original, the Japanese edition contains around 2,500 headwords and 145,000 frequently used collocations carefully chosen for Japanese learners. The dictionary is packed full of examples that make it easy to understand the usage of collocations thus far not included in English dictionaries. Moreover, signposts (representative translations assigned to similar collocations), an original feature of the Japanese edition, are displayed to facilitate the finding of target collocations by users.

With collocations that reflect the realities of contemporary English and vivid examples, this is a “dictionary worth reading” that is immediately useful and fulfills the roles of both reading comprehension and spoken communication.

In the JapanKnowledge edition, a “list of meanings” has been placed at the top of the main text of entries that have multiple meanings, enabling the user to jump directly to the meaning he or she wishes to read about. In addition, when making a search for a headword, it is possible to search not only for the headword but also a signpost or the Japanese translation, etc. of the collocation.

Note: A collocation is two or more words that are linked idiomatically.

General editor: Yagi Katsumasa
Editorial committee: Higuchi Masayuki, Sumiyoshi Makoto
Translation/Proofreading: Nagano Itaru, Sada Ichiro