Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Overview



Improve your English language skills with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Understand what words mean. Learn how to say them. Know how to use them. The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD) is a world best-seller. It is now available as an app, with the full A-Z dictionary and real voice (not text to speech) audio. It has been developed by the same editors from Oxford University Press who created the printed dictionary, working together with Paragon Software, a leading software developer for mobile devices.

Key Features of Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary



   Listen to real British and American voices pronounce words and example sentences

   Access the high quality audio offline within the app, including 116,000 example sentences

   All the dictionary text is live – tap to instantly look up any word

   Browse the full Oxford 3000 (the most important words for you to know in English)

   Create your own list of favourite words and pin favourite words to your desktop

   Snap the application to the right or left of your screen for easy access while running other programs

   Search the dictionary from anywhere within the operating system by using the Search charm

   Find a word in any phrase or example sentence in the dictionary

   ‘Did you mean…?’ function and wildcard search allow you to find a word even if you don’t know the spelling

   Tap on phonetics, abbreviations and symbols for help with what they mean

   View History to see the last words you looked up



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