The app offers many great features on both Android and iOS devices:
- Voice search – A much quicker way to look up a word than typing it on your phone. It also beats out Google’s voice search if you’re looking up multiple words as you don’t have to click through the Google search results. Also great in those instances when you have no idea how a word is spelled.
- Offline access – Those of us who write for a living and work in the boonies or on planes without Wi-Fi need to have continuous access to a dictionary even if we can’t get online. This app gives you ready access to the complete Merriam-Webster English Dictionary.
- More than just a dictionary – In addition to merely looking up words, this app also contains synonyms, antonyms, example sentences, and a Word-of-the-Day feature.
The official Merriam-Webster Dictionary is a free Android app supported by ads.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary [Android Market via Merriam-Webster]
Lach
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 12:21 PMUnfortunately has American spelling, not English.
E.g. …ize instead of …ise
E.g. color
ozoneocean
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 2:11 PMIronically that’s the very definition of Merriam-Webster: Webster was the pernickity ex-schoolteacher who INVENTED American-English, so you’re looking at the very bastion of that bastardised variation (this is a valid descriptive term here, not derogatory). :)
Now if we had the full Oxford (for British English), or the Macquarie (for Australian English), that might be more to your tastes.
Perry
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 5:51 PMI’d pay for an Android OED or Macquarie.
Steve
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 10:36 PMIs there anything wrong with Google “Define X?” Sure it’s not great if you’re splitting hairs, but come on!
hazel kosky
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 7:55 PMDo you have a contact office or website in Australia??