(App proudly made by Australians)
Enfour, Inc. has combined Oxford's largest single volume English Dictionary and largest Thesaurus, plus sound, all in one application —making this the largest Oxford English reference on ANY mobile platform.
● The entire Oxford Dictionary of English, Second Edition (ODE)
● Oxford Thesaurus of English, Second Edition (OTE).
Including extensive reading & reference material, over and above the core content
● 72,000 pre-recorded sound files from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary with British English voice actors.
▪ full content of the unabridged texts
▪ complete appendices and front matter
▪ unique three-way cross-referencing search
▪ real-time progressing look-up
▪ wildcard searches for unknown spellings and quizzes
▪ hyperlinking between dictionary & thesaurus
plus to and from appendices
▪ fallback online searches for esoteric or archaic words and the latest slang
▪ unique support for round-trip search from other applications
▪ bookmarks with editable notations
▪ iCloud Bookmark syncing
▪ automatic history
▪ "AI Teacher" for deeper explanations or help for ESL students in 98 languages
▪ anagram generator
▪ "Today" & LockScreen widgets
▪ Siri support
▪ iPad Pro multi-screen and Drag & Drop
▪ iPhone 15 & iOS17 support. macOS support.
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◼ ODE Description
▶ The foremost single-volume authority on the English language - revised and updated to include the very latest vocabulary
▶ Hundreds of new words and senses derived from the latest research from the Oxford English Corpus, giving the most complete and accurate picture of the English language
The Oxford Dictionary of English is at the forefront of language research, focusing on English as it is used today, informed by the most up-to-date evidence from the largest language research programme in the world, including the 800-million-word Oxford English Corpus. This revised edition includes hundreds of brand-new words and senses, as well as up-to-date encyclopedic information, and extensive appendices covering topics such as countries, heads of state, and chemical elements.
◼ OTE Description
▶ Authoritative coverage of more synonyms and antonyms than any other A-Z thesaurus
▶ New and up-to-date synonyms and senses, based on the latest research from the Oxford English Corpus
▶ Accessible and easy to use, with synonyms given in order of usefulness and key synonyms highlighted
▶ Lists including foreign words and phrases, and imitative words added to the completely revised centre section giving useful vocabulary on a broad range of topics, from clothes and food, to medicine and music
▶ Special Features: Choose the Right Word boxes that help distinguish between close synonyms, plus Word Links panels: look up the word 'coin' and find the link with 'numismatic'
The WordFinder section of word lists has been fully revised and reorganized with its own quick-reference index and includes topics from clothes and food, to medicine and music, with new lists of foreign words and phrases, archaic words, imitative words, British and American equivalents, and more. It is an invaluable resource to help broaden your vocabulary and provide quick answers to word puzzles and crossword clues.
▶ over 72,000 pre-recorded soundfiles linked to headwords
◼ Features:
▶ high-quality recordings with native English pronunciations
▶ accurate coverage of different homographs, variant forms and inflections
Powered by Enfour's -"UniDict® Engine 15"
Enfour, Inc. is proudly owned by Australians, providing dictionaries and language solutions around the world for 30 years.
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This application is distributed with the written permission of OUP.
Like another who has reviewed I bought this app for a woping $50 something many years back. Now your asking me o purchase it again.
Everything you have provided me with about how to go about re downloading does not work.
$50 something more dollars down the drain !
I do not recommend this app.
What’s worse is I had all thesaurus and dictionary words saved in folders.
Best combined Dictionary & Thesaurus App on the market.
I’ve owned this App for 7 years and love it. Pronounces each word for you. Wildcard searches are great for crosswords. Easy hyperlink between Dictionary & Thesaurus, a dream to use. App support are so helpful too. I’ve never given them a rap, so I thought it was about time.
Happy thankful user
For about a year the app wouldn’t open. I would always get a message from Apple that the license was expired.
Thanks to the help service Center and their patience with me it is working again and I’m happier with it than ever before. Especially to get the Daily Word.
So if you are having trouble with it don’t give up, just ask for help.
Invaluable
An essential reference point for so much information. If you have an enquiring mind this is a must 🧐🤓
4 stars mostly happy
To be fair the most outstanding feature on this app is the sound, being able to hear how a word is pronounced. Helpful to my grands when they are needing to learn something unfamiliar. In saying that this app has been uploaded to all our devices making it somewhat worthy of its price although if there was another app offering this feature without the hefty price tag I would definitely recommend it. And the fact that the app could be a lot more friendly to iPhone iPad functionality being available to the screen page where the word of inquiry is instead of flicking in and out of pages/screens to get your query resolved would help it out a lot more. For the hefty price and the awkward functionality I give it 4 stars... I can get past the word definitions and thesaurus definitions and probably would still give it 5 stars. Actually I am even happy with the thesaurus
Happy User
I've used this app for years now and found it extremely useful for my proofreading job. Heavens, we'd all like the multiple volumes of the real thing but this does the job admirably for me and there is always Google for any word that isn't included in the app. Best app on my iPad.
Mr
Can't update
Costly, doesn't work with iOS 8.
Don't buy this app, there are plenty of cheaper option
App doesn't work on iPhone 6
Very expensive, only to find the app doesn't work on iPhone 6. Touching the search tab closes the app.
Avoid this app
Because my previous review was deleted due to alleged TOS violations, I'd like to reword it.
This app has a built-in anti-piracy mechanism which posts, without the user's consent, with their Twitter account, "outing" them as a software pirate.
This system recently had a bug which caused this system to spring into action for paying customers like myself, which also, for a time, rendered the app useless until the "bug" was fixed.
As a result, I recommend people avoid apps by this developer.
Overpriced
I wanted a dictionary, decided get the best for IOS. Chose Oxford deluxe without investigating, thinking that it was the full Oxford dictionary (price helped with that assumption), It's not, its the one volume Oxford dictionary of English. There are many other more reasonably priced dictionaries to choose from.