Top 15 Apple Dictionary Alternative and Similar Softwares | Nov 2024

Your Mac also comes with a versatile Dictionary application. It also includes to other reference libraries such as thesaurus, Apple glossary, and Wikipedia. With it, you can find definitions, learn of the word's origin, find synonyms and antonyms, or get encyclopedic knowledge about any subject.

The Dictionary application, developed by Apple for its Macintosh computers, was introduced with Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger". It provides definitions and synonyms from the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition and Oxford American Writers Thesaurus, 1st Edition.

1. MSDict

MSDict MSDict is a software suite of five English dictionaries and includes over 170,000 words and definitions. The bundle offers an extensive English dictionary, thesaurus, phrases and idioms, and grammar assistance. The software is an excellent reference tool for wide range of users - from beginner to advanced English learners, business......

2. Oxford Dictionaries

Oxford Dictionaries Free online dictionary of British English and American English from Oxford. Translate from English to Spanish, French, Italian, and German with bilingual dictionaries. Get writing, spelling and grammar help, and play word games. (US)......

3. Perfect Dictionary

Perfect Dictionary Search multiple dictionaries from huge database in over 50 languages. FEATURES: - Automatic word suggestions from enable dictionaries while typing. - Ability to see history of searched words and clear history any time. - Ability to mark words as Favorite and pin them to startscreen.- Play audio pronunciations of words.......

4. TopWordsLike.com

TopWordsLike.com The Top Words Like website is a great resource for finding synonyms for any given word.......

5. TemaTres

TemaTres The way to manage formal representations of knowledge......

6. Visuwords

Visuwords The fun and free way to look up definitions. THE graphical dictionary and visual thesaurus. We love words......

7. LexBook

LexBook A powerful english dictionary online with many examples of use: definitions, synonyms, translations, tendencies, news and books.......

8. Gnome Dictionary

Gnome Dictionary This program can look for the definition or translation of a word in existing databases over the Internet or over local databases. It is extremely simple to use.It also contains a GNOME panel applet for that effect.......

9. Dictionary.com

Dictionary.com The free Dictionary.com app delivers content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, including nearly a million words and definitions and 90,000 synonyms and antonyms. No internet required!Features that require an internet connection include audio pronunciations, similarly spelled words, and Dictionary.com’s popular Word of the Day.......

10. Glossword

Glossword Glossword helps you to create and publish online multilingual dictionary, glossary, or reference. It features real-time localization manager, a customizable alphabetic order, UTF-8 encoding, SEF/SEO support, import/export terms in XML/CSV formats and more.......

11. Reference.com

Reference.com Reference.com offers a massive online dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, quote finder, and translator (powered by Google Translate)- all for free. For the Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com mobile app, go here. Dictionary.com......

12. Lingoes

Lingoes Best (portable) translation service of the world using Google Translate, Babelfish, Yahoo translation and.... Lingoes sits in the system tray and becomes ones pop-up dictionary and thesaurus, as well as ones text and URL translator both from and to English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Thai,......

13. The Free Dictionary

The Free Dictionary Online Dictionary - Multiple dictionaries including: English dictionary, medical dictionary, legal dictionary, financial dictionary, computer dictionary, thesaurus, dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations, dictionary of idioms, thesaurus, Columbia encyclopedia, Wikipedia encyclopedia, examples from classic literature, pronunciations, word browser, glossary.......

14. Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster Free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality Merriam-Webster language resources.......

15. term.ly

term.ly term.ly is a way to explore the English language. It is a semantic reference. A dictionary. A thesaurus. A reference tool. Maybe more. Maybe less.......