Dictionary - Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster Inc.

Contains adsIn-app purchases

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

Good app, and worth paying the $2 for ad-free... but I do have a specific bone to pick... the speech-to-text is an amazing handsfree feature, and understandably doesn't work without internet connection... BUT a lot of the time (75%?), especially a lot in the past few months, even if I am connected to wifi, or my data has full bars it does NOT work.. it tells me "you need internet connection".. this is painstakingly annoying. Please fix this bug.

It is a great, handy little app. You can sign in and save words for later. It's a simple app. A less is more kind of app. It does not nag you too frequently for the premium version. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because when I am typing into the search bar, the keyboard disappears, and I have to tap back into the search box to bring it back. Has happened on my old phone as well.

The only way to use this app efficiently is to turn of the wi-fi and use it in offline mode. The ads appear based upon cookies, that's fine, but what is not okay is the fact that the ads do not go away and they block the entire content of the dictionary making reading impossible ultimately forcing a close only to have it happen again upon re-opening.

What's new

Bug fixes and other small tweaks.