There are three categories of dictionaries

• “full-size” dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers)
• “collegiate” (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students)
• “learner's” (which are even smaller, targeted to English language learners, and which all use the International Phonetic Alphabet to indicate pronunciation)

Ref:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_English_dictionaries

If you are looking learn new words, use Learner's dictionary.

List of Learner's dictionaries

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In [1]:
import pandas as pd
dfs = pd.read_html('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_English_dictionaries', match="Learner's", flavor='html5lib')
df = dfs[0][['Title', 'Main dialect']]
pd.set_option('display.max_columns', None, 'display.max_rows', None, 'display.max_colwidth', None)
print(df)
                                                     Title Main dialect
0                  Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary      British
1                      Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary      British
2               Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English      British
3       Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners      British
4  Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary     American
5                     Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary      British

In [2]:
from datetime import date
print(date.today())
2022-11-17

I prefer “Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary” to “Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary”.

Justification:

• Compare the results of https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/zinger vs. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/zinger . The meaning in the Cambridge dictionary is short and to the point.