Dictionary - M-W Premium

Merriam-Webster Inc.

About this app

Get America’s most useful and respected dictionary, optimized for your Android device. Continuously updated with the newest words and meanings, this is the premier Android app for English language reference, education, and vocabulary building.

And now we’ve added new word games! It’s never been more fun to learn new words and test your vocabulary for everyone from English learners to total word nerds. Hundreds of words to test your skills.

Offline access: You’ll have complete access to definitions and synonyms whether or not you’re connected. You will need a connection to view illustrations, hear audio pronunciations, and use voice search.

Features:

* No ads
* Integrated Thesaurus: more than 200,000 word choices with examples of their use
* New Vocabulary-Building Quizzes: fun, fast quizzes to learn new words or test your vocabulary
* Voice Search: look up a word without having to spell it
* Word of the Day: learn a new word every day
* Example Sentences: understand how a word is used in context
* Audio Pronunciations: voiced by real English speakers, not text-to-speech robots
* Favorite Words and Search History: keep track of the words that are most important to you
* Favorite Word Syncing: share your favorites between devices
* Premium Content: over 1000 graphical illustrations, and over 15,000 additional entries covering people and places
* For Tablets: browse the entire dictionary with a scrolling index

Ratings and reviews

Weird bug .... but when first launching the app and tapping into the search 🔍 bar, the keyboard comes up and then automatically closes after 2-3 seconds. It only happens once after a fresh launch, but it's INCREDIBLY annoying because it basically screws up whatever you were trying to type! Also, the mechanism for switching to the thesaurus while viewing a word isn't immediately obvious at first – it was years before I noticed it down at the bottom! But it's a super handy feature to have…

I use this dictionary a lot, and I like it for the most part. It's super handy for finding definitions and showing your friends that they're pronouncing a word wrong. The thesaurus feature is cool as well. The one issue I have with it is that when I'm searching for a word, the keyboard will randomly collapse while I'm typing, and I'll accidentally press a random word from the list. I don't know if it's a bug in the app or maybe just my device.

It is annoyingly easy to select a word while scrolling through a definition, and then you inadvertently jump to the definition for that word. And the tabs at the top of recent words is gone, making it more difficult to go back. Any effort to address this? UPDATE: Still no effort to fix this issue? This is obviously something that changed in the May 2023 update. Heck, I'd be happy with going back to the way it was before that. Can we at least do that until you guys can figure it out?

What's new

Bug fixes and other small tweaks.