LDOCE (InApp)
Longman Dictionary of English
Free · In-App Purchases
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An InApp purchase is required to activate the dictionary.
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Longman's flagship learner’s dictionary, fully updated and now with integrated Thesaurus and Collocations Dictionary
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
- For Advanced Learners ©
Longman's flagship learner’s dictionary is now available as an iPhone/iPod touch application. Improve your fluency in English with the most up-to-date learner's dictionary at your fingertips.
Now with integrated Thesaurus and Collocations Dictionary.
Dictionary details:
● 230,000 words, phrases, and meanings - more than any other learner's dictionary
● 165,000 examples based on real, natural English from the Longman Corpus Network show how English is really used
● 10,000 encyclopedic entries -people and places.
● 5,000 verb conjugation tables
● Clear definitions. Written using only 2,000 common words.
● Most frequent 3,000 words in spoken & written English highlighted for you
● Register Notes focus on the differences between spoken and written English.
● The Academic Word List is highlighted to help you improve your essays and presentations.
● Grammar and warning notes ensure that you avoid the most common errors.
● Integrated Collocations Dictionary. Over 80,000 collocations will improve your fluency.
● Integrated Thesaurus. Over 20,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words will improve your vocabulary range.
● 83,000 pronunciation files —all headwords in both UK & US accents.
PLUS
● another 86,000 recorded example sentences (via external links or bulk download)
Making this the largest resource of English available on ANY mobile platform!
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Application Features:
● full contents of the print dictionary
- PLUS additional collocations, synonyms & word histories
● complete front matter and additional resources
● unique three-way cross-referencing search
● real-time progressing look-up
● wildcard pattern searches -with * ?
● spelling suggestion dictionary included
● hyperlinking directly to meanings & appendices
● example sentence search
● search on idioms and phrasal verbs
● search on synonym and "sign-post" meanings
● an "AI Teacher" for deeper explanations or help for ESL students in 98 languages
● Bookmarks with folders and editable notations
● Bookmark syncing across devices via iCloud
● Flashcards to test yourself
● automatic history listing
● Teacher's resources in PDF for printing or email
● Evernote posts with the full layout for definitions
● full layout in emails, Facebook and printing
● -plus Twitter & Sina Weibo
● "Word-of-the-Day" sets including TOEIC® & TOEFL®
● iPad Pro SplitView and Drag & Drop
● "Today" & LockScreen widgets
● "Share" extension to search inside other apps
● "LDOCE Broadcast" - search to a second device or iPad SplitView
● Open to search with Siri
● search from other applications via a public API
● OS-independent app localization
● iPad Pro multi-screen and Drag & Drop
● Dyslexic mode and VoiceOver support
● DarkMode & 3D Touch support
● Supports iOS 12 through to iOS 18
● iPhone, iPod, iPad and macOS support
● complete offline use
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The ultimate learner's resource of the English language for use anywhere and anytime.
Copyright:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
© Pearson Education Limited 2009, 2011, 2015
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Adds a "Today" widget for iOS18.
Update for iOS26
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Information
- Provider
- English Channel, Inc.
- Size
- 1.4 GB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 12.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 10.15 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 53 more
- English, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Cambodian, Catalan, Cebuano, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lahnda, Laotian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Nigerian Pidgin, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humour
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- LDOCE5 activation USD 9.99
- Example Sounds download activation USD 0.99
- Longman Activator Thesaurus USD 8.99
- Full-text Search activation USD 0.00
- Copyright
- © Pearson Education Limited, Enfour Inc., The English Channel
