Dictionary - Merriam-Webster

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.4
533K reviews
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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.

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
Updated on
Jun 4, 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

4.4
498K reviews
Stefan van Berkum
August 15, 2024
I love the dictionary but it would be super useful to have the back button take you back to the previous page (not the homepage) and to make the hyperlinks less sensitive. It happens very often that you accidentally press a link while scrolling down and that instead of being able to quickly return to the previous page, you need to find it again using the search bar.
57 people found this review helpful
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Jon-David Graham
September 2, 2020
This is a great app, not only for definitions but also adding to your vocabulary. An excellent must have tool. I do not have any issues with searching for words or the audio. The games work great, there are ads but it doesn't take a genius to find the "X" and in my opinion the price for an entire year of premium is rather low. I'm not sure when the last time I spent money to buy a dictionary was, but I'm positive I overpaid for it. I would like to leave a big THANK YOU here to the developers.
176 people found this review helpful
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Stephen Liu
August 17, 2024
Does what I want: provide definitions of words. Ads are banner style and relatively unobtrusive, and the subscription to get rid of them is dirt cheap at $3/year. Also has a thesaurus and some nice things like word games and a word of the day. Edit: there are some pretty annoying bugs. Sometimes the app will just freeze, sometimes it'll load indefinitely and I have to restart it.
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What's new

Bug fixes and other small tweaks.