15.5 Safe to install
American Heritage® Dictionary: A Classic Resource for Every Word Lover
The American Heritage® Dictionary by Enfour, Inc. offers a comprehensive and authoritative resource with detailed definitions, expert etymologies, and helpful usage notes, making it an essential tool for writers and scholars alike.
Note: There is a newer version of the American Heritage® Dictionary available on the AppStore. Tap on the "Enfour, Inc." link for AHD5.
The American Heritage® Dictionary for iPhone stands out among the Big Three dictionaries. With its extensive content and features, it receives a strong recommendation from MacWorld, earning a rating of 4 mice.
Featuring a staggering 2,074 pages and weighing 7.5 pounds, this dictionary is a comprehensive linguistic resource that boasts nearly 300,000 terms. It even includes 64 thousand recorded sound files by native speakers, allowing users to access all this valuable information instantly at their fingertips.
One of the highlights of this mobile dictionary is the impressive collection of more than 33,000 written examples, totaling a staggering 4,222,000 words. This places it as the largest dictionary on any platform. Even without the sound files, the American Heritage® Dictionary would still be the biggest dictionary available on 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 — the first iPhone dictionary with external linking, and now the most advanced!
- Bookmarks with editable notations
- Automatic search history
- AI-boosted anagram generator
- "Today" & LockScreen widgets
- 3D Touch support
- DarkMode support
- iPad multi-screen and Drag & Drop
- iPhone 15 & iOS17 support
- iPhone, iPod, iPad, and macOS support
- Complete offline use - no Internet connection required
The American Heritage® Usage Panel, composed of more than 200 distinguished writers, scholars, and scientists, provides valuable advice on problems of grammar and style. Engaging notes explain word histories and clarify differences among synonyms. Additionally, thousands of quotations and example sentences offer words in context. The elegant definitions are enhanced by numerous full-color photographs, drawings, and maps, making this mobile platform one of the most complete reference tools available.
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
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Visit their website at http://www.hmco.com.
Powered by Enfour's "UniDict® Engine 15" — thesaurus links work with these products:
"Roget's II: New Thesaurus"
"Companion Thesaurus"
"Companion Synonyms"
and many more
Overview
American Heritage® Dictionary is a Commercial software in the category Education developed by Enfour, Inc..
The latest version of American Heritage® Dictionary is 15.5, released on 07/04/2024. It was initially added to our database on 12/24/2023.
American Heritage® Dictionary runs on the following operating systems: iOS.
Users of American Heritage® Dictionary gave it a rating of 5 out of 5 stars.
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