
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Merriam-Webster, Inc.
4.8
Advertisement
Advertisement
Get America’s most useful and respected dictionary, optimized for your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Continuously updated with the newest words and meanings, this is the premier iOS 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.
Features:
* Universal App
* New Vocabulary-Building Quizzes: fun, fast quizzes to learn new words or test your vocabulary
* Additional resources available with in-app purchases
* 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 Through iCloud: share your favorites between devices
* For Tablets: browse the entire dictionary with a scrolling index
* Apple Watch Extension: see the Word of the Day and find watch-sized definitions with voice search
Fully featured and absolutely free, this app is supported by ads. You can remove ads for $2.99 per year with an in-app purchase charged to your iTunes account or $5.99 per year with additional resources. Prices vary by location. Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the subscription period. You can manage your subscription in your account settings.
Terms of Use: https://www.merriam-webster.com/terms-of-use
Release Details
Publisher Country | US |
Country Release Date | 2010-12-14 |
Categories | Reference, Books |
Country / Regions | US |
Developer Website | Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Support URL | Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Content Rating | 4+ |
Average Rating
272.83K+
Rating Breakdown
Featured Reviews
By Evon B
2024-05-14
Version 5.7.1
Love itAudioFeature RequestsLove love love this app, misspelling and grown people not knowing how to use verbally or written English drives me crazy. Therefore I drive people crazy. I’m Native America, knowing about our history and how our Native language was stolen makes me even more determined to speak and write English correctly. I will never understand the white man trying to assimilate us into their culture, making us learn their language yet they couldn’t even teach us how to speak and write it properly. I get so tired of hearing people make fun of us and how we talk. I’ve often wondered if we had to learn English because the invaders wasn’t smart enough to learn our language. Thank you so much for this wonderful app. I just wished more people used it. It is awesome!!! I live in NC, so I talk with that old southern draw, but for some reason we Lumbee still have a way of speaking the southern dialect a little different than other southerners even here. I don’t care where I go people want to hear me talk, or we can be in a different part of NC, well for that matter anywhere in the USA away (Robeson County NC), someone will hear us or we’ll here them and it’s on…!! @“Hey cuz you from RobesonCounty?” “Where you from and whose yer people?” Anyhow I love home and my “people.” I hope it never changes, every country, state and city needs to learn and keep alive the things that keeps them interesting, different and unique. 🪶🦅
By 1234$slots
2024-05-06
Version 5.7.1
Love itI love to write. I am in the middle of my first manuscript, and I regularly write prose poetry. I have been able to find unique and unusual words to use so my thoughts are expressed in a different manner in each of my works. Meridian-Webster is easy to use, offers a wide variety of synonyms and antonyms, and the definition is easily understood when trying to find a word that fits the context in which I am trying to convey. I have played around with other sources just to see if there is any other words that are available that M-W might not have listed. It has been my experience that the words offered in M-W are complete and that the offerings are quite a bit more significant in number and complexity compared to the ones I dabbled in. I come back time and time again to assist me in keeping my words fresh and engaging in my writing style. I can definitely recommend it to anyone who is looking for something different and mundane. I subscribe for the year at an unbelievable low cost and get way more than what one would expect for such a small cost!
By Misty Cypress
2023-11-26
Version 5.7.0
DifficultFeature RequestsHate itLevelLove itI love this app. It’s easy to use and a great dictionary. But the word games available on the app have one serious, obvious flaw. The games are fun and I enjoy playing them. There are different levels of difficulty and you have to earn a certain number of points in order to advance to the next level. The number of points required to advance to the next level is ridiculous. For instance, in one of their vocabulary games you must earn 2,800 points to advance from the light difficulty to medium. You get 10 questions to reach this number, with a randomized mixture of questions worth different points. Of the many questions that I have received, I’ve only identified 3 different point questions. 100, 200, and 300. I often get mostly 100 point questions, some 200 point questions, and one or two 300 point questions. Some simple math points out a grave oversight. Even if I answer all of the questions correctly, I would need a lot of 300 point questions to make reaching the next level possible. Since the type of questions seem randomized and have never added up to equal 2,800, how am I supposed to advance? If there’s nothing that I’m missing, whoever designed the games lacked some essential logic.
Screenshots



