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Longman is one of the great credible dictionaries that provide definitions by using a restricted vocabulary, helping non-native English speakers to understand meanings easily with millions of corpus, examples, and sentences, tools for study, teaching, examinations, and grammar. A key characteristic of the LDOCE is its utilization of the Longman Defining Vocabulary, and two thousand words controlled defining vocabulary used to write all of the definitions in the dictionary.

The platform specializes in collocations, antonyms, synonyms, designed for intermediate to advanced level learners with contemporary English compilations. The controlled defining vocabulary is helpful to second-language learners as well as facilitated the use of the LDOCE as a machine-readable dictionary in computational linguistics research.

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GlosbeFree
Glosbe is a multilingual dictionary covering all languages and resembles Wikipedia that provides you translations, pronunciation recordings, grammar references, exemplary sentences, and many other semantic descriptions with thousands of users worldwide. Some languages may have complicated grammar. Their conjugation and declension can be checked by just clicking the table-oriented word. It is compatible with the following languages English, Urdu, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kannada, Korean, Latin, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tagalog, Turkish, and many more.
Displaying a picture with a word’s description is really a great way to elaborate the overall etymology; that’s why this platform provides multiple images. Additionally, the users can create their personal dictionary for some practice and words’ learning. The platform is integrated with various credible sources for discovering the lexicons, and users are appreciated too for sharing unique words.
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WordnikFreemium
Wordnik is an online English dictionary and productive language platform that provides dictionary and thesaurus content, including some of the content that is based on print dictionaries such as the Century Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, and WordNet. It has collected a corpus of billions of words which it uses to display example sentences, provides information on a much larger set of words than a typical dictionary with many real examples as possible when defining a word.
For multiple citations and references, the platform is integrated with Wiktionary, which is a web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms in all-natural and artificial languages. It is a nonprofit organization, and its goal is to find and share as many words of English as possible with as many people as possible. The platform contains example sentences from major news media (such as the Wall Street Journal and USA Today) and books from Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, as well as from other sources across the web like blogs. The users can find synonyms, hypernyms, superordinate, and words that are more generic or abstract than the given word with logged-in lists.
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VerbAceFree
VerbAce is a compilation of words that provides complete information about verbs and translates in a mouse click from any application with an English-Arabic dictionary of over 80,000 entries and a powerful morphological engine. The platform provides complete information about verbs and nouns with many commonly used phrases (mostly contemporary), which clarify the meanings further.
The search engine of the site is far superior to any other common tool and returns results faster and much more accurately. For Android, it is a high-end Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionary app with simple to use and provides accurate translations without leaving the current app. Some of the unique features include: thousands of English & Arabic entries, detection of phrases or expressions, instant results, and get an offline dictionary without the Internet.
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VisuwordsFree
Visuwords is an online visual graphics-oriented thesaurus and dictionary tool that allows users to see the website that connects words instead of only defining them or only providing text by using WordNet as a credible source. From an educational perspective, the readers can explore the lexicon whether they are a native English speaker or second language user, students, teachers, and any other can browse the language.
It is embedded with a search engine that is used to find any word, description, synonym, same compound word, and associative categorization with other relevant words. The readers can touch a node to see the definition of that word group and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections. It is great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, artists, and the online dictionary is available with an internet connection without the membership requirement.
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Advanced English DictionaryFree
Advanced English Dictionary is an easy and comprehensive English to English compilation that provides more than 800,000+ words with their meanings, definitions, synonyms, examples, and much more for learning new or advanced words. It can be used for Educational purposes with multiple search words, meaning, and definitions without the Internet. The application is integrated with a huge database of words, and their meanings are certainly rated among the top Offline English Dictionaries by users. Additionally, the readers can ascertain their level of English with multiple choice questions and learn new words every day with checking and improvement of the vocabulary.
Scanning the content is one of its best features, as it needs to point a camera on the content, and that can be translated by Camera Translator with efficacy. Key features include: English Voice Translator, Word of the day, Synonym and Antonyms, Idioms, Thesaurus, Most Common Words, Daily English Conversation, 5,000 IELTS Words, Easy, Vocabulary, Proverbs, Irregular Verbs, Favorites words, for future reference, Quiz, Words Translate to English, Vocabulary for Kids, and many more.
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xFarDicFree
xFarDic is a comprehensive multilingual dictionary that provides the word navigator, history box, pronunciation, memorization tool, auto-click and translates, reverse search, and many more, developed using GTK2, libxml2, wxWidgets, under GNU/Linux.
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DocTranslatorFree
DocTranslator is an online document translator tool that allows to instantly translate and preserve the layout of any document format into any language with layout conversion efficacy. It requires uploading the content, and the document’s text is extracted, taking special care in maintaining the exact format and styling of each category with original condition.
The platform is integrated with advanced technology to process the text from your documents and return it in the customized language. The platform intelligently grabs and then re-inserts text exactly where it belongs without copy/pasting text in or out of the documents. It supports many languages, such as English, French, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese and hundred plus languages.
All the major office formats are supported, including .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .xls, .xlsx, .odt, .ods, .odp, .pdf, .srt, .txt, etc. Multiple organizations and individuals around the globe rely on the site in order to better conduct business, interact, and understand the world. It performs a same-day translation turnaround, and the users can download the translated .docx and .pdf without significant delays.
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NextDict DictionaryFree
NextDict Dictionary is an easy and comprehensive multilingual offline translation service that provides the meaning of the words in multiple languages with a huge database lexicon compilation. It supports popup mode (small floating window on top of other apps) for best user interaction for reading books and newspapers in foreign languages. The users can choose to download multiple dictionaries, including the Concise English Dictionary, Advanced Learners’ Dictionary, English Vietnamese dictionary, English Thesaurus, Vietnamese English dictionary, Open source Wordnet Dictionary, Russian Vietnamese Dictionary, Vietnamese Russian Dictionary, and many more.
NextDict is the only dictionary that contains the complete set of English references, including Irregular verbs, Irregular plural nouns, English proverbs, English idioms, Phrasal verbs, and popular acronyms used on the Internet and social network. It is closely integrated with a third-party app for the best translation experience from outside the app with auto-translation of the text in the clipboard (copied text when activating Popup mode).
Additionally, the platform is integrated with popular ebook readers, such as EzPdf reader, Moon Reader, Cool Reader, and others, with the feature of supporting translation from any apps with default Share text action. Some of its key features are word suggestions, sentence or paragraph translation, British or American voice compatibility, voice input, history words, and favorite vocabulary.
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ExamplumFree
Examplum is an online dictionary and the best way to explore new words, phrases, and multiple lexicons with active learners from 180 countries who work with this platform and other linguistic tools, which include more than one billion translation examples on a daily basis. The platform allows taking the test of a couple of minutes to check the language command and find out the vocabulary.
The aim of the platform is simple and comprehensive to help people practice and master whatever they are learning with multiple datasets examples. It is integrated with various credible sources for discovering the lexicons, and users are appreciated too for sharing unique words and their descriptions. There are some popular languages that can be translated into each other, such as Spanish, French, Italian, English, and Russian, etc.
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SkyDicFreemium
SkyDic is a powerful dictionary compatible with MDict data format that allows adding multiple dictionaries as well as lots of glossaries and other language platforms integration. It is completely compatible with the .mdx & .mdd format of MDict and has the efficacy to add multi dictionary data and switch between them. The platform is integrated via third-party app support (like Tucan Reader & Bookviser Reader), and word recognition & voice commands options. Additionally, it is embedded with hyperlink jump in content, fast Word Suggestion, offline pronunciation, Quick App Resume, and favorite & History.
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Google Dictionary (by Google)Free
Google Dictionary (by Google) is an online translating utility that provides the comprehensive interpretation of a paragraph, sentence, phrase, grammatical component, and any other language productivity. The readers can double-click any word to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble and view the detailed definition of any word or phrase using the toolbar dictionary.
The users can save and store a history of words they’ve looked up so they can practice them later, and foreign words are automatically translated to the language of a particular choice. It supports some popular Dictionaries, such as Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), French, German, Turkish, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Japanese, etc.
The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press’s OxfordDictionaries.com and compatible with languages such as English, Spanish and French. The service contains a word origin chart, pronunciation audio, Google Translate, Ngram Viewer, and word games, among other features for the English-language version. The tool is embedded with a search engine that is used to find any word, description, synonym, same compound word, and associative categorization with other relevant words.
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Reverso Context TranslationFree
Reverso Context Translation is an artificial intelligence-based language tool that provides translation assistance and other interpretive services with online neural machine translation, contextual dictionaries, bilingual concordances, grammar, spell check, conjugation, and many more. It is an online and mobile application combining huge data from large multilingual corpora to allow readers to search for translations in context.
The platform supports many languages, including Arabic, English, Chinese, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, etc. Usually, the texts are sourced from books, academic booklets, novels, films, and governmental documents, allowing readers to see idiomatic usages of translations as well as synonyms and voice output. The app provides language-learning characteristics, like flashcards based on words in example sentences and browser extensions for some famous search engines, such as Chrome or Firefox.
The website facilitates collaborative bilingual dictionaries between various pairs of languages, which use crowdsourcing to let viewers submit new entries and give feedback. Moreover, the utility carries tools for conjugation of verbs in various languages, spell checking tools, and written multilingual grammar guides for language learners with documents and website translation efficacy.
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Leo DictionaryFree
Leo Dictionary is an Internet-oriented electronic dictionary and translating tool that helps to interpret German as the main language into others, including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Polish, Russian, and Portuguese, etc. It is integrated with a search engine that is used to find any word, description, synonym, same compound word, and grammatical categorization with other relevant words.
With LEO, the readers can do more than just look up the meaning of a word in a different language with a noun and verb tables, grammar, real voice audio pronunciation (no-speech synthesis), definitions, and etymology. It allows you to learn a new language and find a way round in a new country with various cultures and custom productivity.
The platform uses a way synchronization method that allows access to the word lists on mobiles or desktop devices with online support or guidance. Moreover, the readers can opt for some advanced searches, including the orthographically similar words, links to forum discussions containing the search term(s), and possible base forms for inflected words.
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Dict.orgFree
Dict.org is an online search engine-based website that provides the database of multiple languages into other embedded categories, including etymology, programming text descriptions, and other associative word domains. The tool site is compatible with a search engine that is used to find any word, description, synonym, same compound word, and associative categorization with other relevant words.
Search type includes the following categories: Return definitions, match headwords, match prefixes, match substring, first-word head, and separate with headwords, and match the suffixes, etc. Moreover, the database deals with multiple dictionaries, including the regional or standard language-based corpus and lexicons.
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OnelookFree
Onelook is a huge language database platform that includes finding a word into the dictionary, translation, and any other foreign language interpretation, by containing more than five million words. The platform provides lots of register-based professional terms, such as General Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Slang, Religion, Science, Sports, Tech, and Phrases, etc. It is embedded with a search engine that is used to find any word, description, synonym, same compound word, and associative categorization with other relevant lexicons.
It is great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, artists, and the online dictionary is available with an internet connection without the membership requirement or any signup. The users need to type a word into the search bar, and it automatically finds relevant dictionaries and word sources for complete descriptive analysis. The platform never asks for any personal information or data and ensures complete, reliable interaction with side-by-side feedback only. It uses third-party advertising organizations to serve ads when anyone visits the website.
Every hour a computer program chooses five words that get an unusually large number of searches on the site, and these words tend to reflect topics that have appeared in the world news or in discussion groups across the Web. Additionally, each morning the top word is featured as the Word of the Day on our home page, and the top five daily words, as well as the top five words for the current hour, are shown to the left with an archive of the daily words is shown below.
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OxfordifyFreemium
Oxfordify is an English platform that provides meanings, for example, pronunciations, sentences, and multiple language-oriented vocabularies, developed by Oxford. It is great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, artists, and the online dictionary is available with an internet connection with the membership requirement or signup. Oxfordify is embedded with a search engine that is used to find any word, description, synonym, same compound word, and associative categorization with other relevant lexicons.
The platform allows learning a new language and finds a way round in a new country with various cultures and custom productivity. The major goal of the site is simple and comprehensive to help people practice and master whatever they are learning with multiple datasets examples. The users can find unique words on a daily basis, take the quiz, and favorite words with glossaries and online support.
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Spanish English TranslatorFree
Spanish English Translator is a language interpretation-based application that lets users translating English into the Spanish language and vice versa, with thousands of users. It is a very effective app for easy and fast translations, which can be used as an offline dictionary. The tool is embedded with voice input for text available and speech output in both languages interchangeably. It requires inputting a sentence into the search bar, and then the app automatically displays the translating content into a second language with instant efficacy.
The readers can translate offline without an internet connection and share translations with friends and other colleagues as Spanish is spoken in countries like United States, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Equador, and others, so a large audience can take help with this user-friendly application. The application is equally beneficial for a student, tourist or traveler, and will help you to learn the language.
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