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      • Today, Merriam-Webster is America's most trusted authority on the English language. Merriam-Webster is the most reliable, trusted, easy-to-use dictionary and thesaurus online. Our products also include bilingual dictionaries and the Official Scrabble Dictionary.
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  2. Find definitions for over 300,000 words from the most authoritative English dictionary. Continuously updated with new words and meanings.

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    • Collins Dictionary. Collins dictionary is one of the best platforms for learners, translators, and teachers. Boasting over 4.5 billion words, Collins is an embodiment of top-tier features.
    • Wiktionary. Established using an ideology that is similar to Wikipedia, Wiktionary goes beyond the standard dictionary to provide an in-depth explanation for words using definitions and illustrations.
    • Google Dictionary. Google dictionary is one of the most famous dictionaries since it boasts one of the most comprehensive online word directories. Its strongest attribute is the fact that it supports several languages.
    • Urban Dictionary. Urban dictionary is an online platform where you can find definitions, pronunciation, and synonyms for urban words or slang. Although it doesn’t come handy for scholars and academicians, it can help you decipher slangs or urban words you come across around the web.
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    It does the best job of user experience. Few highlights: 1. Autosuggest (the search bar in the dictionary suggests words when you start typing a word) works well 2. Examples are neatly arranged in expandable tabs after each meaning, which gives the dictionary compact and neat look. You can click these tabs to unfurl several examples for each use ca...

    This dictionary does the best job of examples too. They provide plenty of examples, by and large the most for the dictionaries covered in this post. They could’ve, however, improved user experience in examples by highlighting (bold or underline) the word in question for quick pinpointing. Cambridge English Dictionary does this.

    Audio of the pronunciation is a must in any dictionary, but the non-phonetic form too is helpful. While most dictionaries carry phonetic form, only few (dictionary.com, for example) carry non-phonetic form. Pronunciation comes right at the end of the page. The dictionary has both American and British pronunciations, but they need to be accessed thr...

    True to its wont of offering wide variety of examples, the dictionary provides surprisingly high number of examples even for idioms and phrasal verbs. (When it comes to idioms and phrasal verbs, almost all dictionaries are thin on examples.)

  3. The Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries have long been considered as the two most credible and trustworthy for British English. In terms of popularity, the Oxford dictionary is the more popular of the two in the UK and is generally cited as the ultimate authority on the language.

  4. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely accepted as the most complete record of the English language ever assembled. Unlike typical language dictionaries, which only define words in terms of their current uses and meanings, the OED is a historical dictionary. Each entry lists a word's changing meanings (including those now obsolete), and ...

  5. Merriam-Webster is the most reliable, trusted, easy-to-use dictionary and thesaurus online. Our products also include bilingual dictionaries and the Official Scrabble Dictionary. For over 150 years, Merriam-Webster has been America's leading and most-trusted provider of language information.

  6. The largest and most trusted free online dictionary for learners of British and American English with definitions, pictures, example sentences, synonyms, antonyms, word origins, audio pronunciation, and more. Look up the meanings of words, abbreviations, phrases, and idioms in our free English Dictionary.

    Title
    Publisher
    First Published
    Latest Edition
    1969
    5th (ISBN 0-547-04101-2)
    1872
    13th (ISBN 9781473602250)
    1979
    14th (ISBN 978-0008511340)
    1911
    12th (ISBN 9780199601080)
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