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Collins Primary Illustrated Dictionary

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2019
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attentively ADVERB

attic attics

NOUN a room at the top of a house immediately below the roof

attitude attitudes

NOUN the way you think about someone or something and behave towards them • I’m not going in that shop again. I don’t like their attitude.

attract attracts, attracting, attracted

VERB 1 If something attracts people, it interests them and makes them want to go to it.

2 If someone attracts you, you like them and are interested in them.

3 When magnetic materials are attracted to a magnet, they are pulled towards it.

attraction attractions

NOUN 1 If you feel an attraction for someone, you like them very much.

2 somewhere people like to visit for interest or pleasure, such as a fun fair or a stately home

3 A force of attraction pulls magnetic materials towards a magnet.

attractive

ADJECTIVE 1 Someone who is attractive is good-looking or has an exciting personality.

2 If something is attractive, it is interesting.

aubergine aubergines

NOUN a dark purple, pear-shaped vegetable. It is also called an eggplant.

auburn

ADJECTIVE a red-brown hair colour

auction auctions, auctioning, auctioned

NOUN 1 a public sale in which goods are sold to the person who offers the highest price

VERB 2 to sell something in an auction

audible

ADJECTIVE If something is audible, you can hear it.

audience audiences

NOUN 1 the group of people who are watching or listening to a performance

2 a private or formal meeting with an important person • The winners of the bravery awards had an audience with the Queen.

audition auditions

NOUN a short performance by an actor or musician, so that a director can decide whether they are suitable for a part in a play or a film, or for a place in an orchestra

auditorium auditoriums or auditoria

NOUN the part of a theatre or concert hall where the audience sits

August

NOUN the eighth month of the year. August has 31 days.

aunt aunts

NOUN Your aunt is the sister of your mother or father, or the wife of your uncle.

author authors

NOUN The author of a book is the person who wrote it.

authority authorities

NOUN 1 the power to tell other people what to do • The teacher had the authority to give me detention.

2 an organization that controls public interests • the local health authority

3 Someone who is an authority on something, knows a lot about it.

authorize authorizes, authorizing, authorized

VERB If someone authorizes something, they give official permission for it.

authorization NOUN

auto-

PREFIX 1 self or same • autobiography

2 self-propelling • automatic car

autobiography autobiographies

NOUN an account of someone’s life that they have written themselves
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