Oxford English Etymology
Find out where the words bungalow and assassin came from, what nice meant in the Middle Ages and much more.
Also includes advanced search and language tools that have become the staple of quality language apps from MobiSystems, Inc.
SEARCH TOOLS
- effortlessly find words thanks to a clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface.
Intelligent search integrates several tools to match or suggest what you are looking for:
• Search autocomplete helps find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type
• Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases
• An automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ to correct word spelling, as well as ‘Wild card’ ('*' or '?') to replace a letter or entire parts of a word
• Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results
• Share word definitions via installed apps on your device
LEARNING TOOLS
- engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary.
• ‘Favorites’ feature to create custom folders with lists of words from the extensive library
• ‘Recent’ list to easily review looked-up words
• ‘Word of the day’ section to expand your vocabulary daily
• Home screen widget provides random words at a glance
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Reviews (30)
I expected more. Very short entries with minimum etymology. Lots of abbreviations, like they had limited space for each word. The "Oxford" gives it some authority but I feel there's a lot more they could add. I could not find "espresso". Is it not english language enough?
what language="OS" search "written", click write\WriTan? OldSaxon\OSp i want a more complete oed encyclopedia of etymology set. especifically complete citations. happy to have dates and word parts. not a complete list of oed words. yet best word study dictionary of all except for a few subarticle essays "American Heritage Dictionary" & WordOfDay History Webster.~ Etymology, Maps, Categorical Census, are most important education concepts if to understand meaning of business exchangea and history.
Being a writer and editor, I often need to verify words or determine their origins. This app is the best I've found, so it'll be my constant tool for my work.
Not much useful, Merriam Webster is way better. Cons: requires silly permissions, too many ads, not stable, buy premium for offline use.
I understand the sequences from where words develop, but I would love more explanations and exame if possible. Thank you.👌👏🙂
No etymology! Downloaded this for the etymology but there's no etymology option, search or included in definitions. Just a standard dictionary. I do hate app developers who lie.
Nice app. Please don't be shy with any additional information you can include in your etymologies.
It is too brief it does not relate vocabulary items to each other based on etymology it's nothing compared to etymonline
the word "raptor" is not present in this app. I uninstalled immediately after making this discovery.
there is a bug in the widget, keep getting Error message saying loading failed. please fix
Overloaded with ads and etymology limited. Really horrible first impression.
annoying ads is not the issue but the whole content they have.
Very brief entries. Nowhere near as good as Etymonline.
everything i click on an add pops up, then the whole app closes.
Insufficient etymological detail: superficial. Perhaps because this is only based on the Concise edition
Shabby. As soon as I see the word "favorites", rather than "favourites" I know it's not a serious English dictionary.
I understand the sequences from where words develop but i need more explanation...thank u
Hard to navigate, but very efficient
A very normal dictionary gives you more information! 😕
There should be no file reading enforcement to look up words.
Not even worth 2. Just giving me problems. Just waisting data.
this should be standard on every phone.
Not what I would consider etymology... More of a dictionary
Don't like that it does not link to words within its desciption..
An etymology dictionary that doesn't go to the root of the word
Why can't I give it ZERO stars ? Somebody is wasting my time. SHAME.
It is wonderful dictionary.
Useless, or use less it's not what I looked for
Exactly what I need in my teaching
it's not as good as I expected..I uninstalled it after 5 minutes... I want to read about word origins and this said it explains that but it actually doesn't from what I seen! very disappointed. also too many ads..I clicked one by mistake, one click and it almost cost me 8.50 as my card details saved to Google play were suddenly there! Not safe in my opinion.