Advanced American Dictionary

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About this app

The dictionary for academic success.
“A must for every serious student of English!”

Every headword pronounced. 25,000 audio recordings to help you learn the correct pronunciation.
Full color text, zoomable illustrations and extensive sound files make the Longman Advanced American Dictionary ideal for use on your phone.
• Full contents of the Longman Advanced American Dictionary
• 185,000 words, phrases and meanings
• 73,000 natural examples show words in context
• Thesaurus boxes with 10,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words
• 5000 etymologies help you learn the origins of words
• 6,000 new words for school content such as Science and Social Science
• 5,000 verb conjugation tables
• Full color technical illustrations with zoom function
• 3,000 most frequent words in spoken and written English highlighted
• Search history and book mark facility
• Progressive look-up for quick searching
• Academic wordlist highlighted to help you understand high-level academic texts

New Functionality:


- Full content of the print dictionary
- PLUS additional collocations, synonyms, and word origins
- Guide on how to use the dictionary
- Search using wildcards and suggested words
- Predictive text in search helps you with spelling as you look for words
- Search for idioms and phrasal verbs
- Search history to help you find recently searched for words
- Support for search from within other compatible apps on your device
- Bookmark your favorite words
- Word-of-the-Day
- My vocabulary

Ratings and reviews

Excellent app. I wish there was also a female voice.

It is fantastic but I have found some pheonetic typos in it how should I contact the authors?

Facilities and usefulness of this app are undeniable. I almost always use it.