Dictionary

TheFreeDictionary.com – Farlex

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About this app

Get the power of TheFreeDictionary.com, the world's most comprehensive dictionary. English, Spanish, French, and 11 other languages, plus Medical, Legal, and other specialty dictionaries, all from the most trusted sources. Translate English into more than 40 languages and access dozens of other translation options. Share definitions via social networks, email, and text. Even use the English dictionary without an Internet connection.

You can now log in with The Free Dictionary! Sync your bookmarks to all your devices and never lose them. Plus: Track your learning with points and badges and earn meals for hungry children through The Free Dictionary's partnership with the World Food Program—just by reading and playing games!

Content and Features

* Multiple English dictionaries, featuring extensive definitions, pronunciations, usage sentences, etymologies, and more.

* Extensive offline English dictionary and thesaurus. NOTE: Offline content must be downloaded separately using an Internet connection before offline mode can be accessed.

* Advanced Search options, including "Starts with," "Ends with," and "In definition."

* Multiple thesauri, featuring synonyms, antonyms, related words, even images.

* Multiple encyclopedias, including Columbia, Collins, even Wikipedia.

* Multiple specialty dictionaries, including Medical, Legal, Financial, Idioms, Acronyms and Abbreviations, and more.

* Online dictionaries in 13 other languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Greek, Arabic, Polish, Turkish, and Russian.

* Translate English words into more than 40 languages, plus dozens of other translation options.

* Play audio pronunciations of words and view a pronunciation key.

* Jump to Definition, Thesaurus, or Translations with one button.

* Look up the definition of any word on the page with one click.

* Search for words on the page.

* Create bookmarks. Sort alphabetically or chronologically.

* Learn something new every day with fresh daily content, including Word of the Day, This Day in History, Quote of the Day, Today's Birthday, News of the Day, and more. Even set notifications for daily delivery.

* Play games, including Spelling Bee, Match Up, Words Within Words, as well as Hangman in a dozen different languages.

* Customize your homepage: add or remove articles, games, even personalized horoscope and local weather in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

* Navigate the app in more than a dozen languages with the multilingual interface.

* Share your favorite definitions, encyclopedia entries, and articles via Facebook, Twitter, email, and text. Even share homepage articles.

* Set daily notifications for Word of the Day and other content.

* Adjust font size.

* Copy text (with supported devices).

* Use swipe gestures to move back and forward (with supported devices).

* Search via Android Quick Search Box, including voice-activated searching (with supported devices).

* For app developers: The Free Dictionary app has the ability to be accessed by other apps with API calls (Contact Farlex for instructions on accessing TFD).

Ratings and reviews

Perfect tool for exploring my innate passion for language. The customizable bookmarking feature is **fabulous**. I also find the audio pronunciation feature invaluable! I'm an avid reader, but there's few things more embarrassing than knowing how to *use* a word in conversation yet pronouncing it incorrectly! I love this app. I can't do without it and cannot even offer any suggestions on how to improve it. If you love language, or simply need a hand on spelling, grammar, pronunciation, or syn

This was a great app when I first downloaded it three phones ago. But these last two years, it will often fail to open, even when it's closed and reopened numerous times. Sometimes it just locks up when swiping back from an article. The content is great, so it's frustrating. I've never had such unpredictability with an app. It was five stars when I first got it. Please do some maintenance.

I'm not impressed, first it requires you to create an account. Next, it doesn't integrate into the system, at least not from my experience. I'll be un-installing. Edit... By integrating into the system, I mean into the keyboard and/or when you select/highlight a word and the copy paste etc options pop up, there is no option to to directly go to the dictionary app. I also tried the Oxford dictionary and though it has its own problems, that app did what I described.

What's new

* Bug fixes and enhancements.