本日8月1日（月）に、ジャパンナレッジLibの新コンテンツとして、「小学館 オックスフォード英語類語辞典」（小学館）を公開しましたのでご案内いたします。

 

[コンテンツ情報]

「小学館 オックスフォード英語類語辞典」 は、Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus: A dictionary of synonymsの日本語版です。

圧倒的な類語の数、詳しい解説、豊富な生きた用例など、同書の優れた特長を損なうことなく、日本人にとって有用と思われる項目約1,300を厳選し、独自の索引によって、日本語からも自在に引くことができるように工夫しています。

類語総数約1万、用例約2万6,000を収録。さらに、類語相互の違いや用法を紹介した約2,600の注記やコラム、類語同士の意味の強弱が矢印で視覚的にわかる123の「類語スケール」、文型と結び付きの強い語が一覧できる「文型コロケーション」など、よりよい英語を書き・話すための情報も充実しています。

ジャパンナレッジ版では、親見出しや類語見出し、派生語で検索できるほか、日本語索引である「日本語類語一覧」も収録。日本語類語一覧では、あいうえお順に並んだ日本語の中から調べたい語にすぐにアクセスできるだけでなく、一覧収録の日本語でも英語類語の検索が可能です。

英語を必要としているビジネスマンや実務家、語彙力をさらに高めたい英語学習者にとって必携の一冊です。

 

Dear JapanKnowledge customers,

This informs you that "Shogakukan-Oxford English-Japanese Learner's Thesaurus " (SHOGAKUKAN Inc.) has been added as a JapanKnowledge Lib content on August 1st.

[Content Information]

The Shogakukan-Oxford English-Japanese Learner’s Thesaurus is a Japanese edition of the Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus: A dictionary of synonyms. While not in any way diminishing the outstanding features of the original thesaurus’ huge number of synonyms, detailed commentaries, and abundant examples of real-life English, approximately 1,300 entries considered to be helpful for Japanese users have been carefully selected. A unique index makes it possible to look up words from Japanese as well as English.

 

The thesaurus contains a total of roughly 10,000 synonyms and 26,000 examples of usage. Moreover, the Japanese edition is chock-full of information for writing and speaking better English, such as approximately 2,600 notes and columns that explain the differences and usages between synonyms, 123 “synonym scales” that use arrows to show the intensity of meaning between synonyms visually, and “sentence pattern collocations” that make it possible to see words that are strongly linked to sentence patterns.

 

As well as enabling searches for main headings, synonym headings and derivatives, the JapanKnowledge edition also contains a “Japanese synonym list” that acts as a Japanese index listed according to the Japanese hiragana order. Not only is it quick and easy to find the desired word from the Japanese, it is also possible to search for English synonyms from the Japanese words contained in the list. 

This thesaurus is an absolute must for businessmen and other professionals who need to use English, as well as learners of English who wish to further improve their vocabulary.