User Rating3.13/5Concise Oxford English Dictionary. The most authoritative English dictionary, with up-to-date coverage of more than 240,000 words, phrases, and meanings, including 900 new words. Features: English audio pronunciations, Dictionary installation on memory cards, Hyperlinks between related articles, Search History to see the last 20 translations.
Price: $14.95
Concise Oxford English Dictionary Android App loads an entire dictionary with some word pronounciations in your pocket. There is a German language version as well. Please Note: to use the audible pronounciations you must first install the sound pack, recommended to install to SD Card. The spoken dialet varies; meaning some speakers have accents, some are women, some are men.
To benchmark the depth of words we searched for the 2009 National Spelling Bee winning word “Laodicean”… it was there! But didn’t find the longest word in English Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (try saying that 3 times fast… well try once). Probably because it’s a factitious word.
Altough there are plenty of free online dictionaries, Concise Oxford English Dictionary Android App is useful when you don’t have an Internet connection and need word definitions (say… while traveling on a plane).
The app is easy and straight forward though exhibits slight user experience quirks with using the “Back” button on the phone, whereas the “Back” action native to the app requires two tapps… Menu > Back/Forward.
(3.4 out of 5)
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But then couldn’t you say that all words are factitious, i.e. created by humans?
Just think how useful this would be in the next pub quiz…..muah muah muah
This really is too expensive. FREE though… hmm.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis … damn.
Anyway seems like a cool app, “lighter” than the book version
This is useful, but it’s not comprehensive enough. thefreedictionary.com has better coverage (too bad it does have a good mobile interface). I would really like to see a true unabridged dictionary such as Webster’s Third New International Dictionary or even the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
I agree. It’s too expensive. But I’ll take a free one!
Looks like a decent app, just wonder what the speed comparisons are to a search using this, versus one that accesses the net? Is it noticeable?
$15 is asking a little much though. Struggling to think of a situation where I need a definition for a word, don’t have internet access, and would be willing to spend $15 to find out! Must have an audience though.
Thanks for the review!
for $15 it should be able to use a voice search for the word i’m looking up, then correct my enunciation, and maybe give me a candy when I get it right. for $0 it does everything I would want it to do.
A free dictionary app would be nice!
I have two free dictionaries on my phone and I can’t justify paying 15 dollars for another one. Couple of bucks maybe if the dictionary is really better than the free one’s, but not 15.
sounds a bit too expensive for an online dictionary.
I’d love to win a copy!
My wife has a bad habit of misusing words, so this will be a godsend to be able to show her the real meaning of what she thinks she is saying.
Count me in…as long as it’s free.
Also a boon to anyone trying to cheat at crosswords on the way home on the train… Network coverage doesn’t extend to tunnels and remote parts of the countryside (apparently trains are too episodic and don’t warrant the investment in network infrastructure). We need more apps that can cope with being ‘occasionally disconnected’.
So what about a free license?
Count me in, please!
Hey Rick, dazbradbury, Brian, Ventsi, and alex… check your inbox you’ve won the free licenses of the software. A big thanks too Paragon Software for providing it!
As an English major and Philosophy major specializing in the Philosophy of Language, I can tell you that the OED is the go-to for looking up words. The OED is authoritative, in that it cites the derivations of the word, as well as in some cases the first appearances of said words in recorded history.
If I had this for my G1, I’d be in heaven. $15.00? Almost worth it…
this is definitely expensive…would rather use a free dictionary if the price is not reduced to at least half
I think a dictionary app would be awesome for myself when i’m playing scrabble with the wife whilst camping!!! It would stop many arguments!!
I’ts to expensive for me
i wish i could test first before buying
I wish I could give it a try! I already had a version of this dictionary on my SE W910i and it was great! I would like to try that new voice recognition system!
$15 is too much indeed…
It looks great in all the screenshots, and some pronunciations is a bonus…
but $15?? That seems a little steep to me.
A must for the quick word validation in Scrabble
I have compared this to some other mobile platform built-in dictionaries and this takes the cake. Hyperlinking FTW as well…
really wanted something like this, then got an iphone. but $15 or $30 AU is a turn off.
If it is anything like the full (printed) version of the OEd it would be worth twice the price.