Dictionary - M-W Premium

4.1
9.75K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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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. Hundreds of words to test your skills.

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:

* No ads
* Integrated Thesaurus: more than 200,000 word choices with examples of their use
* New Vocabulary-Building Quizzes: fun, fast quizzes to learn new words or test your vocabulary
* Voice Search: look up a word without having to spell it
* Word of the Day: learn a new word every day
* 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
* Premium Content: over 1000 graphical illustrations, and over 15,000 additional entries covering people and places
* For Tablets: browse the entire dictionary with a scrolling index
Updated on
9 Dec 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.9
8.74K reviews
Hamed Momeni
2 January 2021
There is one feature which would make this dictionary the number 1 on the market. The ability to share words from other apps to look'em up easier and faster instead of copying and pasting. There is this bug that the keyboard disappears when typing for the time. It's really annoying.
8 people found this review helpful
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A Google user
19 December 2024
Works well enough. Looked up a word and accidentally tapped another word while reading? Guess what, you get to go back to the main lookup/greeting window if you try to go back! At least there's a lookup history, if you know where to look. 12/19/24 Run foreground service: datasync 05/17/22 Advertising ID Permission 08/11/21 New: Run a foreground service and run at startup. Because I *need* this to launch at startup? Why? I imagine it's to collect info all the time?
10 people found this review helpful
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Jeffrey B.
31 October 2024
Weird bug .... but when first launching the app and tapping into the search 🔍 bar, the keyboard comes up and then automatically closes after 2-3 seconds. It only happens once after a fresh launch, but it's INCREDIBLY annoying because it basically screws up whatever you were trying to type! Also, the mechanism for switching to the thesaurus while viewing a word isn't immediately obvious at first – it was years before I noticed it down at the bottom! But it's a super handy feature to have…
6 people found this review helpful
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What's new

Dictionary updated with new words, and newly revised definitions.

Bug fixes and other small tweaks.