Dictionary.com, part of the Ask.com network, has launched a free iPhone app that delivers lets you look up definitions and synonyms from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, reaching into a database of more than 275,000 definitions and 80,000 synonyms. The app also features audio pronunciations, similarly spelled words and Word of the Day.
The app lets you easily access spelled words, alphabetical indexing, synonyms example sentences, non-standard uses, word origin and history. Another cool feature of the app is the ability to access definitions and synonyms offline. You can also hear pronunciations of words. The app store currently features ten dictionary apps with the Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s app priced at $24.99. Dictionary.com’s app.
Dictionary.com was bought by IAC-run Ask.com in July of 2008 when the conglomerate bought Lexico, the operator of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. Dictionary.com drew nearly 11.2 million unique visits in March, according to Compete. Merriam-Webster.comhad over 7 million unique visits in March.
I see no reason why anyone would pay 24.99 for a dictionary app when this one seems just as good, if not better.
also,it needs to change the name
Very good application.
Yup, best one out there.
Apple should release one of their own.
Indeed, looks good.
Hmm,…. Would be nice if they did not require access to the Internet, though…
Exactly without Internet doesn’t work
It absolutely should work without internet connection for definitions and synonyms. It only requires an internet connections to hear audio pronunciations and get the word of the day. Of course, you also need an internet connection to download the app, and because the app is more than 10MB Apple & AT&T require that you use wifi or your wired connection to download the app. But we had to make it > 10MB so you could get all the content offline once you install the app.
Try Dictionaire. It doesn’t require an internet connection and it’s super great and it’s free!
It does NOT require internet to use! I just installed it, and the only thing that requires internet is the word of the day. I turned off wifi and I am able to find definitions and synonyms for words just fine!
There is also WikiPock. Search and read wikipedia & Wiktionary offline.
http://www.wikipock.com
do u kno if this wickipock will work on iphone?
Thanks for the very nice post Leena.
Just want to clear up one points as we actually have much more traffic than what you report.
According to Compete, we have more than double the traffic of Merriam Webster.com (15.5M UUs for us, 7.2M UUs for MW. See http://tinyurl.com/dfaa8h )
The confusion is easy (and really our fault) as you need to look at Reference.com to get the full picture of our traffic, because due to historical reasons almost all of our dictionary.com traffic resolves to dictionary.reference.com.
We also think that Compete drastically under-
reports our traffic. See Quantcast which has our global UUs at 37M/month. See http://tinyurl.com/dmpvjr
Hope this helps set the record straight, and in any case thanks very much for the great post!
Really nice article!
I just use ninjawords.com, personally
I think this is better as ninjawords is based on Wiktionary and this seems to be based on the Random House English Dictionary … greater quality control.
besides, ninza sounds like samurai,quite scary
Wow, another great apps for iphone.. hope to hear more.
It’s about time. This is the feature I personally want in my iPhone.
Thanks for sharing the news.
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Thank you,
Em
Is there a free iPhone ditionary app that can work off-line?
The Dictionary.com iphone app works offline.
All 275,000+ definitions and 80,000+ synonyms are offline, and do not require an internet connection.
And it’s free!
…and it doesn’t work off-line. This is just a browser app for cloud content — much faster than trying to use dictionary.com on the default bb browser. After clearing out “recent” and turning off internet connection, all I get is “Server could not be reached! Please check radio or try at a later time…”
To clarify…perhaps some of us are downloading an “internet only” dictionary.com app and perhaps there is the 10 meg program vs? Is this correct? If so, I downloaded from this link…
http://dictiona...kberry/download on my bb and received the browser only vs. Are there then 2 versions that can be downloaded? …. and why?
I wish there was a way to just download this full app to the computer and install this on the bb for those of us who can’t easily do OTA.
I can’t really consider this freeware because I can’t back up this software if I need to reinstall; in fact, I can’t reinstall this. Perhaps cloudware is a better term for OTA only software that is free to install once per download.
I’ll try those other “actual” off-line truly “free” apps. Thanks Alex and Bob for listing them.
Oops,
Just shows how tired I am. Didn’t realize this was responses for just iphone users to this app. Kindly ignore the blackberry user. Sorry.
nice app. It looks like it was designed in 2008, since the world of the day icon has 08 in it. I’m surprised, the didn’t change it 09.
Just shows me the company either lacks attention to detail or the design process goes through so many meetings that no one wanted to make a quick change.
the date is 09 because today is the 8th of the month! it will be 09 tomorrow, 10 the next day, etc
Definitely a must have application for even burning up time on the ground during a layover. Definitely could use a 1.5/2.0 revision hopefully shortly, but give dictionary.com some slack being their first *huge* app.
I knew there would be an IPhone dictionary app from Dictionary.com….it was bound to happen. Yay!
Is this story a paid post?
Usable app for all the time , indeed.
Nat
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Nice App and much needed. Nice to know its free too, talking about FREE come and grab yourself an iPhone Promo Code for JeoScore from http://whichweb...e_giveaway.html
crap … needs WiFi to download this app
Nice to know the app is free indeed. How do other apps like Merriam-Webster justify charging people for using their app? Besides, there are phones (not the iPhone I mean) that have in-built dictionary apps, though certainly not as comprehensive as Dictionary.com’s iPhone app.
Hi All,i have downloaded it 3 times but once even not working,it made hang my iphone.
i had to remove and again install and again.
i dont think its a free application and it sucks.