![]() The latter is a great addition that isn’t always available in dictionary apps for iOS: since I studied Latin and Ancient Greek in high school, I’ve developed an interest for knowing word origins, but I’m obviously limited when it comes to English etymologies. WordBook is an English dictionary and thesaurus with hundreds of thousands of entries and definitions with support for synonyms, usage samples, and etymologies. WordBook has an option to add notes to words and, in trying the app, I also found other features that I like. Surprisingly, I wasn’t able to find a dictionary app with this kind of feature ( Terminology, my favorite one, doesn’t have one) and, of course, Apple’s built-in dictionary lookup functionality on iOS is limited to the basics. As I mentioned last night on The Prompt, WordBook isn’t the prettiest app around, but it does exactly what I need for definitions and notes.īecause English isn’t my first language, I often want to associate Italian expressions with English words to remember the context of a definition – for instance, I would associate “for the umpteenth time” with “per l’ennesima volta” in Italian, which makes it easier for me to remember the word “umpteenth”. ![]() ![]() I was recently looking for a dictionary app that could handle standard dictionary features (thesaurus, synonyms, web lookups, etc) as well as user notes for words, and I decided to check out WordBook after reader Jeff Clatworthy recommended it to me on Twitter.
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