Dictionary.com - Dictionary & Thesaurus
By Dictionary.com
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Description
**PLEASE READ: This app takes several minutes to install over Wi-Fi. We recommend installing over a wired connection.**
The free Dictionary.com app delivers trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, including nearly 1,000,000 words and definitions and 90,000 synonyms and antonyms. No Internet connection is needed. The app also features audio pronunciations, similarly spelled words and Dictionary.com’s popular Word of the Day that is enjoyed by millions of people.
• Winner of the 2009 Best App Ever Awards for Primary and Middle School Kids
• Named as a top 10 app in the App Store’s High School Survival Guide
• Voted best app for college students - US News & World Report
• Recognized as a top 10 Back-to-School iPhone App – Time Magazine
Features:
• Dictionary and Thesaurus
• English and Spanish Word of the Day
• Nearly 1,000,000 words and definitions in our Dictionary
• More than 90,000 synonyms and antonyms in our Thesaurus
• Alphabetical indexing
• Similarly spelled words
• Phonetic and audio pronunciation
• Example sentences
• Non-standard uses
• Word origin and history
• Editable recent word look-up
• Shake device to see a randomly-selected word
• No Internet connection required for Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Internet connection required for Word of the Day, audio pronunciations and similarly spelled words
What's New in Version 2.0
• More than 500,000 new words and definitions
• Shake device to see a randomly-selected word
• Spanish Word of the Day
• Audio pronunciation for English Word of the Day
• Antonyms in Thesaurus
• Browse recent activity
• New setting to launch app with keyboard open
• Faster to install
Customer Reviews
Five star as is. But some suggestions.
As it stands, this app is tremendous. It provides the comprehensiveness of other dictionary apps that cost $20 to $30, except this app is free and has a thesaurus and word of the day built in as well. Just for your information, this app is based on the unabridged version of the Random House dictionary and ppears to be as comprehensive as another paid app that I have (American Heritage Fourth Edition).
Now on the the recommendations.
1. It would be great if there could be an optional setting to have the dictionary or thesaurus search keyboard come up automatically upon application launch instead of having to first tap the search bar.
2. Please disable the near constant prompt to get word of the day by email. I now can get word of the day in this app. Why would I need it in my email as well? It's a little annoying.
3. Provide some type of back button to go back to see the suggested words again. For example, if I type in "force", a number of predicted words pop up and I may click on "force-feed". But say I accidentally clicked this word and actually meant to click "forcefield". It would be nice to have a back button to go back and see the other predicted words for "force" again
Disturbing "Other" memory use
Seems like a very nice dictionary, but despite its claimed ~40MB footprint, I couldn't install it on my phone even though I had > 80MB free. After deleting some music, I had roughly 230MB free and tried again. When it finally installed I noticed my "Other" memory use doubled from about 220MB to well over 400MB, and my free memory droped to 7MB. This happened whether I installed through iTunes or directly from the app store on the phone.
Otherwise 5 stars for what seems to be a comprehensive, and free, dictionary.
Simple,yet effective!
I love this app.it's pretty simple but gets the job done. Now I have to make a
Decision between "dictionary" or "dictionary.com" as my dictionary app(I got dictionary way back when it was free).
UPDATE:I made my decision and Im keeping this app cuz it has far more definitions and takes less memory :)
- Free
- Category: Reference
- Updated: Feb 16, 2010
- Current Version: 2.0
- 42.2 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Dictionary.com
- © 2009 Dictionary.com, LLC.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.
