Oxford English Dictionary 2018 app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 4400 ratings )

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Developer: MobiSystems, Inc.

9.99 USD

Current version: 10.0.18, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 11 Jul 2013
App size: 219.7 Mb

The Oxford Dictionary of English is widely accepted as one of the highest authorities in the study and reference of the English language globally, with more than 150 years of research into it. Regarded as one of the flagship products in Oxford University Press catalog of dictionaries, the app features advanced search, lookup and learning tools designed by a vastly experienced developer.

WHAT MAKES OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH BETTER THAN OTHER DICTIONARIES?
• The very latest vocabulary, 2018 edition, with over 350,000 words, phrases and meanings.
• Tens of thousands of regionally specific entries reflecting the unique richness and global adaptability of the English language.
• The strength of The Oxford English Corpus research excellence, directly placed at your fingertips.
• 75,000 audio pronunciations of both common and rare words, including those with varying pronunciations.

This app is tailored to professionals, students, and academics alike, as well as anyone who needs a comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of current English at work or at home.

LATEST APP UPDАТES:
• Learn in style with any of the four colorful new themes – the colorful layout will turn your learning experience into an enjoyable routine. Customize your dictionary and benefit from the cheerful mood your favorite color brings you.
• Dive right into the intricacies of the language - with a new and convenient Home page, sleeker and more intuitive visual layout, as well as innovations in the speed of searches - you can now get to the desired entry faster than ever.
• Translate and learn as you speak with Talk & Translate – use this speech recognition & text-to-speech app by downloading it for Free from the App Store. The great synergy between the two apps will help you optimize your studies.

SEARCH TOOLS - quickly find words with the functional, clean and easy-to-use interface. Designed to provide the most comprehensive search experience, the dictionary combines several search tools to match or predict what are you looking for, including:
• Search autocomplete helps you find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type.
• Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases.
• Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results in seconds.
• Voice search helps you find an entry using your speech.
• Automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ that corrects word spelling and a ‘Wild card’ that allows you to replace a letter or entire parts of a word with * or ? when you don’t know how it`s spelled.

LEARNING TOOLS - engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary. Designed to give you the freedom to structure your studies, this dictionary combines several learning tools to help you be more organized:
• ‘Favorites’ that allow you to create custom folders with lists of words.
• Recent list which helps you to easily review looked-up words.
• Swipe-to-delete functionality in the Recent and Favorites menus.
• Word-of-the-day option to teach you a new word every day.

Feel excited by the new word or definition you just learned? Share your discovery with friends on social media, email or any other option available on your device.

Pros and cons of Oxford English Dictionary 2018 app for iPhone and iPad

Oxford English Dictionary 2018 app good for

Love the offline mode as the audio pronunciations do not require any data connections.

This app update addresses several of the complaints I had voiced out in an earlier review, so I would like to elevate my rating to four stars. Note that this dictionary is the latest 3rd edition of the massive Oxford Dictionary of English. I have the print version of this dictionary (it weighs 8 pounds!); I can confirm that the entries and definitions match word for word between this e-dictionary and the print dictionary.

This is not the complete OED,it is a good dictionary but confers no advantage over free on line dictionaries.not worth the money!

Some bad moments

It is slow to search and no synonyms. Dictionary.com is much better!

I was very disappointed that the app works only online. It means if you have no net, you can t use it. Also the contact link does not work, so I can t ask for specific help. Very expensive and then only online to use! I ferl cheated upon.

There are simply too many words that Ive looked up which yield no results for me to deem this at all acceptable as representative of the OED. I would actually like my money back.

Big fan of the OED, but this version is not as pleasant to use as earlier edition and the audio is markedly inferior. Oh, and its more expensive, too. I regret buying it.

This app just downloaded itself without me confirming it! I was actually trying to fix a problem with another app (ODE… I don’t even know the difference between that one and this!). I clicked on the ‘purchase’ button, but instead of confirming that I wanted to buy it (where I intended to cancel the transaction), as it usually did, it just downloaded. I tried to ‘report a problem’ and try to get a refund, but just keep getting an error (nginx error!).

Poor definitions, no synonyms. Not recommended. It turned to be a scam - people thinks its the OED, but its the ODE - intentional bisbelieving. Apple should look at this seriously.

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