Dictionary - Merriam-Webster

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.0
533K reviews
50M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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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
4 Jun 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

4.0
498K reviews
julio orendain
8 September 2024
Its useful a decent amount of the times. The ads are ever constant if you plan to look at more than just one word. The definitions are mostly terrible in describing the actual word and almost always force me to click on links to other words to truly understand the word. After clicking on those links I am forced to see more ads. Main complaint is the constant need to just refer back to Google rather than just get a good definiton for the word, and piece it together while being sent to more ads
10 people found this review helpful
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Stephen Liu
17 August 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.
30 people found this review helpful
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Britt Ewen
8 August 2024
I have long subscribed to this app as I think their $6 annual fee is reasonable. However the app appears to be getting worse in each update. Searches take longer and longer, and if you have a poor connection never return at all. If you are completely offline they usually come back faster. Please fix this or I will be back on the hunt for a better dictionary.
26 people found this review helpful
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What's new

Bug fixes and other small tweaks.