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Longman's flagship learner’s dictionary, fully updated and now with integrated Thesaurus and Collocations Dictionary
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
- For Advanced Learners (c)

Longman's flagship learner’s dictionary is now available as an iPhone/iPod touch application. Improve your fluency in English with the most up-to-date learner's dictionary at your fingertips.

Now with integrated Thesaurus and Collocations Dictionary.

Dictionary details:
● 230,000 words, phrases, and meanings - more than any other learner's dictionary
● 165,000 examples based on real, natural English from the Longman Corpus Network show how English is really used
● 10,000 encyclopedic entries -people and places.
● 5,000 verb conjugation tables
● Clear definitions. Written using only 2,000 common words.
● Most frequent 3,000 words in spoken & written English highlighted for you
● Register Notes focus on the differences between spoken and written English.
● The Academic Word List is highlighted to help you improve your essays and presentations.
● Grammar and warning notes ensure that you avoid the most common errors.
● Integrated Collocations Dictionary. Over 80,000 collocations will improve your fluency.
● Integrated Thesaurus. Over 20,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words will improve your vocabulary range.

● 83,000 pronunciation files -all headwords in both UK & US accents.
PLUS
● another 86,000 recorded example sentences (via external links or bulk download)

Making this the largest resource of English available on ANY mobile platform!

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Application Features:
● full contents of the print dictionary
- PLUS additional collocations, synonyms & word histories
● complete front matter and additional resources
● unique three-way cross-referencing search
● real-time progressing look-up
● wildcard pattern searches -with * ?
● an "AI Teacher" for deeper explanations or help for ESL students in 98 languages
● spelling suggestion dictionary included
● hyperlinking directly to meanings & appendices
● example sentence search
● search on idioms and phrasal verbs
● search on synonym and "sign-post" meanings
● an "AI Teacher" for deeper explanations or help for ESL students in 98 languages
● Bookmarks with folders and editable notations
● Bookmark syncing across devices via iCloud
● Flashcards to test yourself
● automatic history listing
● Teacher's resources in PDF for printing or email
● Evernote posts with the full layout for definitions
● full layout in emails, Facebook and printing
● -plus Twitter & Sina Weibo
● "Word-of-the-Day" sets including TOEIC(R) & TOEFL(R)
● iPad Pro SplitView and Drag & Drop
● "Today" & LockScreen widgets
● "Share" extension​ to search inside other apps
● "LDOCE Broadcast" - search to a second device or iPad SplitView
● Open to search with Siri
● search from other applications via a public API
● OS-independent app localization
● iPad Pro multi-screen and Drag & Drop
● Dyslexic mode and VoiceOver support
● DarkMode & 3D Touch support
● Supports iOS 12 through to iOS 26
● iPhone, iPod, iPad and macOS support
● complete offline use
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The ultimate learner's resource of the English language for use anywhere and anytime.

Copyright:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
(c) Pearson Education Limited 2009, 2011, 2015

Version History Updated notifications 17.1 Sep 10 Adds an AI Teacher feature that a deeper background to definitions.
Updates Bookmark sync and backup.
Add support for Anki. 17.0 Jul 14 Improved iOS26 support 16.2 Jun 21 Adds a "Today" widget for iOS18.
Update for iOS26 16.1 Feb 26 Updates to Flashcards and Study Memo.
Changes to "Save Search Word" off behaviour.
Adds LockScreen widget.
Adds opening via Siri 15.3 03/18/2024 Critical fix for iOS17.3 15.1 02/21/2024 Fix for Bookmark folders 14.6 07/19/2023 Version 14.5 adds a Lightning Cards feature that lets you study just a few words in any spare minutes.
(fix for example sentence sounds download) 14.5.2 07/01/2023 Add a Lightning Cards feature that lets you study just a few words in any spare minutes 14.5 06/25/2023 Adds new third-party dictionary links.
Adds a "Open to Search" setting to iPads.
Changes the way it works on iPhones.
Complete update to localizations.
Fixes for Bookmarks. 14.1 03/13/2023 Major update to Bookmarks and History.
• iCloud Sync now works no matter how many bookmarks you have.
• Backups are made locally for all bookmark changes.
• Automatic weekly bookmark backup setting has been added.
• You can also use your bookmarks in the "Today" widget or "Word of the Day".
• You can now bulk save your search History to Bookmarks. 14.0 02/21/2023 Security update 13.3.2 01/17/2023 Fix for printing in iOS16 13.3.1 12/13/2022 Fixes for iOS 16 13.3 10/11/2022 Fixes for a few links 13.2.3 07/07/2022 Returns page zooming via pinching. 13.2.2 03/18/2022 Upgraded pronunciation sound quality from 8KHz to 44KHz

Upgraded our server hardware. Doubled the number of servers and added Amazon S3 failover.
Example sounds now download faster and are higher quality over 3G connections. 13.2 02/24/2022 Better iCloud syncing.
Adds a selectable interface for Bookmark restores.
Adds a setting for third-party keyboards. 13.1 01/27/2022 UI & graphics updated.
Bookmarks are now automatically restored after the app is deleted and reinstalled. (Turn on iCloud Sync setting for this)
Manual Bookmark iCloud restore is now smarter. 13.0 12/21/2021 Fixes for InApp Purchases 12.1.8 12/09/2021 Fixes for InApp Purchases 12.1.6 12/05/2021 Fixes for InApp Purchase restore.
Fixes TabBar layout for some iPhones. 12.1.3 11/29/2021 Adds a "Link Menu" customizing setting. 12.1 11/15/2021 Fix for older versions of iOS. 12.0.2 11/12/2021 UniDict® Engine update.
Adds a list of all our Verb Tables.
Support for iOS 15.

Note: This app is now available on MacOS. Owners of the iOS version can download for free. 12.0 11/09/2021