Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary Philanthropy achingly innocent and astonishingly ironic

achingly innocent and astonishingly ironic ( Elle )

its causes

and the lasting consequences of the Second World War

what could be more romantic than an entire book of love letters

Le Corbusier

Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary Philanthropy achingly innocent and astonishingly ironicCollins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary offers detailed treatment of today's language. Based on the evidence from the Bank of English corpus, which now contains over 524 million words, the fifth edition contains the most important new words and meanings which have come into the language over the past two years, as well as thousands of new, updated examples, taken directly from the corpus.