American Heritage® Dictionary 9+
4th Edition (AHD4) - UniDict®
Enfour, Inc.
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- $19.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
*NOTE: there is a newer edition of American Heritage® Dic•tion•ar•y available on the AppStore. Click on the "Enfour, Inc." link for AHD5.
The entire 2,074 page, 7.5 pound dictionary with its nearly 300,000 terms –plus 64 thousand recorded sound files by native speakers -all available instantly at your fingertips.
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"In the battle of the Big Three dictionaries, American Heritage® stands out on iPhone" (4 mice)
— MacWorld
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More than 33,000 written examples, totaling 4,222,000 words, makes this largest mobile dictionary on ANY platform
The indexes alone are larger than most brand-name dictionaries. Even without the sound files, AHD would still be the largest dictionary in the AppStore.
Main Features:
● the entire text of this best selling book
● complete front matter and appendices
● three-way cross-referencing search
● real-time progressive look-up
● wildcard pattern searches (with * ?)
● spelling suggestion dictionary included
● internal hyperlinking & supports copy/paste
● pop-up pronunciation symbols chart
● IPA pronunciation symbol conversion
● etymology (word history) with root links
● professionally recorded sound files
● zoomable graphics
● fallback online search for esoteric or archaic words and the latest slang
● unique two-way external application interaction
— first iPhone dictionary with external linking and now most advanced!
● bookmarks with editable notations
● automatic search history
● AI boosted anagram generator
● search from other applications via a "Service" menu item
● DarkMode support
● iPhone, iPod, iPad and macOS support
● complete offline use - no Internet connection
The renowned American Heritage® Usage Panel, a group of more than 200 distinguished writers, scholars, and scientists, offers advice on problems of grammar and style; engaging notes explain word histories and clarify differences among synonyms; thousands of quotations and example sentences show words in context; and elegant definitions are enhanced by numerous full-color photographs, drawings, and maps, making this one of the most complete reference tool available on any mobile platform.
Reviews for the application:
"As apps go, only Enfour’s American Heritage® Dictionary stands out for its graphic appeal and functionality. Although I was pleased to have so much lexical firepower in such a compact form, I was annoyed at how poorly the other dictionaries present on the platform." (4 mice)
— MacWorld
Editor's Choice. ranking = "Great"
— MacLife
Reviews of the print version:
"The Best Dictionary...Designed to appeal to the eye as well as the mind, it is notable for its imaginative illustrations....This is a great family dictionary, and ideal for schoolrooms."
— The Courier Journal
"This dictionary, now in its fourth edition, makes it fun to look up definitions of words....This up-to-date and eminently useful dictionary features a fabulous full-color design that quickly and effectively guides users to the information they seek."
— Library Journal
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
http://www.hmco.com
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What’s New
Version 15.3
Updates to Flashcards and Study Memo.
Changes to "Save Search Word" off behaviour.
Ratings and Reviews
Very comprehensive
I was inititally worried about this app, as the size of it, back in August, caused me to need to reset my phone. I waited a few weeks before reinstalling and have had no further problems (make sure you do all the sensible things like setting your phone not to go to sleep before installing). It is expensive, but it is extremely comprehensive and very easy to use, it also includes pronunciation. I would like the "Search" entry space to come up clear every time, rather than having to backspace delete the previous word, but that's pretty petty, given the overall ease of use, and the content. Under the "About" button (which seems the wrong place, as that's often just developer notes) there are really excellent articles on things such as change in the English language, as well as lists of Indo-European roots. It's obviously the most expensive app by far that I've bought... but I love dictionaries, and this is an excellent one, even though it's American!
Best available!
I collect all sorts of dictionaries, and I use them in my day-to-day research work. This implementation of the AHD beats the others by far as a first recourse, despite its being American and despite its not being the SOED (which may have the edge in historical content). Lovers of our language will revel in the two unique appendixes, linked from the main dictionary and fully explained in this app as in the print version, with their Indo-European and Semitic roots. My only suggestion: link from these appendices back to the main dictionary, please. That would be a wonderful enhancement to a superb reference resource.
Would be up the top if you could turn the audio up more!!
Please make the audio louder. It is barely audible on speakerphone even with the volume turned all the way up. I can only give it 3 stars because of the lack of audio controls but will give it 5 if you can fix this.
Speaking Dictionary is only $1.19 and the audio is very nice and loud. I bought this mainly for the audio and it is very expensive but needs tweaks with the audio to make it louder on speakerphone. I use speakerphone to help my wife with her English so earphone is not really an option for us. The speakers have very excellent pronunciation but just needs to be louder so could you kindly look into this in a coming update please as it is very important to me and if Speaking Dictionary can do it then I can't see why American Heritage can't.
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Information
- Seller
- Enfour, Inc.
- Size
- 216.7 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, Cambodian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Nigerian Pidgin, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 9+ Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
- Copyright
- © HMCO, Enfour, Inc. 2008-2024
- Price
- $19.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Roget's II Thesaurus $7.99