Dictionary - Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster Inc.

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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.

The app is free, and supported by ads. To remove ads, a subscription is available.

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:
* New Vocabulary-Building Quizzes: fun, fast quizzes to learn new words or test your vocabulary
* Additional vocabulary-building resources available with in-app purchase
* Voice Search: look up a word without having to spell it
* Word of the Day: learn a new word every day
* Integrated Thesaurus: more than 200,000 word choices with examples of their use
* 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
* For Tablets: browse the entire dictionary with a scrolling index

Ratings and reviews

This used to be my favorite app on my phone for looking up quick definitions of words, especially during my morning Bible study. The most recent update, has made the app, almost unusable. It is now inundated with ads, and when you type in a word, the word comes up, but every time you go to slide up or down, a new word pops up in the search block, forcing you to starr over. Most of the words that pop up don't have anything to do with your original search. Very frustrating.

most people have already mentioned this, but the hyperlinks to other words are ridiculously over-sensitive. you barely need to graze over one to be taken to another page and you can't go back to the one you were just looking at without having to go all the way back to the start screen and going to "recent" or just re-searching the word all over again. incredibly frustrating when other apps/sites with similar amounts of hyperlinks on pages don't have this problem.

This is better than the other dictionary apps. This app lets you slide left and right to review words that you have recently looked at, which is very convenient. There's a button at the bottom to swap between dictionary and thesaurus. My main issue with the app is the homescreen/splash page. If you tap the back button, it doesn't go to your last word. It goes to the main screen. To access the words you were viewing, you have to open the menu and go to dictionary. It's an awkward GUI choice.

What's new

Latest dictionary update with new words and revised definitions!
Bug fixes and other small tweaks.