What's New

This app is not a replacement for previously purchased versions of "LDOCE5".
No not buy again!
"LDOCE5" upgrades will be made available soon.

New:
• 5,000 verb conjugation tables

App Description

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Longman's flagship learner’s dictionary PLUS the Activator Thesaurus
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (5th Edition)
PLUS
Longman Activator Thesaurus

The Longman Activator Thesaurus is a thesaurus for learner’s of English – and unlike a traditional thesaurus, it provides full explanations of all words and phrases so that you truly understand the differences between them. For this reason, the Longman Activator Thesaurus has been described as “better than a thesaurus”!

Are you looking to increase your English vocabulary? Do you have difficulty deciding on the correct word to use in a particular situation? Then the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English PLUS Longman Activator Thesaurus is the app for you.

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.
● Clear definitions written using only 2,000 common words
• 5,000 verb conjugation tables
● Most frequent 3,000 words in spoken & written English, highlighted to show which are the most important to know
● 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.

♪ 86,000 pronunciation files —all headwords in both UK & US accents.
PLUS
♪ another 86,000 recorded example sentences (via external links due to size)
Over 20GB of audio online!

Activator Thesaurus details:
● 866 keywords – basic words that you already know
● Over 22,000 words and phrases – all fully explained and illustrated with example sentences
● Full index for quick look-up of words or phrases
● Over 15,000 audio pronunciations in British and American English
● Full IPA phonetic transcriptions for all words and phrases
● Over 400 images to help understanding

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

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Application Features:
● full content 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 * ?
● spelling suggestion dictionary included
● hyperlinking directly to meanings & appendices
● search on idioms and phrasal verbs
● search by synonym and "sign-post" meanings
● support for search from other applications
● OS-independent app localization
● iPod, iPhone & iPad compatible "universal app"
● "Retina Display" support
● Bookmarks with folders and editable notations
● Bookmark syncing across devices via iCloud (iOS5)
● Clipboard monitoring (iOS5)
● automatic history listing
● complete offline use (except for sentence sounds)

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Social Media
● supports Facebook APIs.
● Twitter & Evernote posts.
● Full layout for definition emails and Evernote posts.

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The ultimate learner's resource of the English language for use anywhere and anytime.

Copyright:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Fifth Edition (LDOCE5)
© Pearson Education Limited 2009, 2011
Longman Activator Thesaurus, Second Edition
© Pearson Education Limited 2002

App Changes

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