Collins - Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary for Kindle

You can use a Collins Kindle Dictionary in two ways:

a) Dictionary look-up mode
You can set up your Collins dictionary to be your default dictionary. This will enable you to look up a word directly from the book you are reading without having to navigate away. If you read across multiple languages, you can set a default dictionary for each language. (See below further information regarding models that support dictionary look-up.)

b) Dictionary browse mode
You can open and search the dictionary directly via keyboard input. For Kindle Paperwhite, you can do this by looking up a word, selecting More and then selecting Open Dictionary. For other models, you need to access the dictionary from your home page in the same way you would access a Kindle book. In dictionary browse mode, start typing the word you want to look up, and you will see an index of words in the dictionary that start with the letters you have typed in. Navigate to the word to select it and view the dictionary entry.

Collins Kindle Dictionaries are compatible with all 2nd generation and newer Kindles, excluding Kindle Fire. If you have one of the following models, you will be able to set the dictionary as one of your default dictionaries:

• Kindle Oasis
• Kindle Voyage
• Kindle Paperwhite
• Kindle (4th generation)
• Kindle Touch
• Kindle Keyboard (3rd generation)
• Kindle (2nd generation)
• Kindle DX

There is no default dictionary feature in Kindle Fire. You will be able to search the dictionary headword list via keyboard input, but there is no setting in Kindle Fire yet to allow you to change your default dictionary.

If you're not sure which Kindle you own, the following Amazon page has a visual guide:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_bc_nav?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200127470

Headword search via keyboard input is supported on Kindle for iPhone/iPad, Kindle for Mac and Kindle for PC. However, default dictionary selection is not supported on any Kindle apps.

We do not recommend our Kindle dictionaries for use on Kindle for Android or Kindle for Blackberry as headword search is not supported on these devices.

Press the Home button. At the Home screen, select Menu, then Settings. Select Device Options, then select Language and Dictionaries. Now you can select the default dictionary for each language.

If there is more than one option for a given language, you will see an arrow next to the current default dictionary. Tap on the arrow to see further options.

Press the Home button. At the Home screen, select Menu, then Settings. In the Settings screen, scroll down until you see Dictionaries, and then select it. In the Dictionaries list, you can select a default dictionary for each language for which you have a dictionary (or dictionaries).

Press the Home button. Then press the Menu button, and move the 5-way to select Settings. Press the Menu button, and then move the 5-way to select Change Primary Dictionary. Move the 5-way to underline the dictionary you want to use, and press to select. Note that this menu option is only available if you have at least one additional dictionary loaded onto your Kindle.

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Synonyms are shown at key entries, each with a lively, up-to-date example, taken from the Collins Corpus. The example will give you a clear idea of the context in which that particular synonym typically appears in English. The numbers refer to the particular meaning within the main entry. To find out more about each synonym, go to that word in the dictionary. The synonyms feature allows you to browse the dictionary, expanding your vocabulary as you go.