Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 7956 ratings )

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Developer: Achoom

1.99 USD

Current version: 4.1, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 25 Oct 2008
App size: 59.64 Mb

Dictionary is an intuitive, consistent, talking, hyperlinked and integrated English illustrated dictionary and thesaurus, spell checker, vocabulary builder and wikipedia browser.

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Dictionarys intelligent word suggestion and search feature eliminates the need for a cluttered index interface.
Equally useful as a dictionary with intelligent word lookup, as a fast spell checker or as a Wikipedia web browser, Dictionary is fast and easy to use.

Support:

If you encounter problems with Dictionary and are interested in getting them fixed, please contact the author at the support link below.

Features:

- Extensive hyperlinked dictionary with 150,000 entries.
- Large and growing collection of 2000+ illustrations for 4000+ terms including maps and national flags for most countries. The collection will continue to grow with future Dictionary updates (internet connectivity is required for illustrations).
- Fully integrated dictionary, thesaurus, wikipedia browser (internet connectivity is required for accessing wikipedia) and rhyming dictionary.
- Customizable definitions let you select what you want to see. You can display synonyms, antonyms (opposite words), hypernyms (more general words), hyponyms (more specific words) and related words (category words).
- The only dictionary in the app store with advanced high quality Text-to-Speech capability to say defined words out loud (tap the speaker button to hear the word).
- Pronunciation guide in either IPA or Merriam-Webster style notation.
- E-mail button to e-mail word definitions, allowing you to access them anywhere.
- Intelligent word search and spell check
- Word Shake to learn new words and to expand your vocabulary and knowledge. Shake your iPhone to learn about a new word or topic. When Dictionary is used primarily as a Wikipedia browser, shaking your iPhone will display a random Wikipedia topic.
- Bookmarks for selected words.
- History of previously searched word.
- Optional translation of words being looked up to Spanish, Italian, French, German and Japanese. Translation uses Google translate and requires an internet connection.

Note that Dictionary does not require an internet connection.

Pros and cons of Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad

Dictionary app good for

Great interface, fast and well designed. My favorite after purchasing a couple of other dictionaries. Just get it.

very good Dictionary Get it while its on promotion you never know when you need one

Cant believe such a quality app is free, thanks so much to the author.

I was real happy with this app until it went from 12.4mb to practically 100mb. "Speech synthesis" is neat, but not worth an 800% increase in the size of the app.

Thesaurus needs to be added other wise great app & slash the price as well too expensive compared to other apps !

I use this app everyday at school, it is simply amazing! However, I refuse to upgrade to the newest version because they changed the icon, I love the old one and think the new one is quite cluttered. Change the icon back, and Ill continue to upgrade. Still worth every penny though. =]

Some bad moments

For the price, Wordbook or WordNet are much better. For 2 or 3 dollars however, this would be a 4 star app. One of the problems with this Dictionary is that it doesnt have unique definitions for all words, but rather gives you the definition a word that is a synanom instead. Definately not worth $7.99.

Theres no illustrations,pronunciation - extremely bad! I want my money back!

Bought this for the voice pronunciation. Doesnt work great. Dictionary itself is inferior to the free one in several areas. Liking this less and less as I use it. The free Dictionaire is much better.

This app was sent to my phone - I did not ask for it. It says "free" on my phone but when I try to update it on my phone it says over 10mb, download from the app store, but then in the app store it has $2.99 as a price. If anybody else has this problem please write a one star review. Thanks

Original now does not work properly now and to get the 3.0 update you have to pay more. None of my other apps did this.

The latest illustrated version is chock full of unnecessary things. Prior release was simple and to the point - it gave you the definition of words. It was in fact a Dictionary. No idea why it HAS to be anything else?

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