The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology provides brief and direct information on the origin and development of English words. Inside you’ll find a wealth of information about the English language and its history.

A search tool

Featuring autocomplete search to help you find words quickly by seeing search predictions that might be similar to the search terms

you’re typing. The search also allows various search options as:

• A ‘fuzzy filter’ when you are not sure of the correct spelling of a word
• A ‘keyword’ search for finding key words within compound words
• A wild card search function (‘*’ or ‘?’) which can replace a letter or entire parts of a word.

A learning tool

The dictionary app includes a number of features which help you to grow your vocabulary further:

• A ‘Favorites’ feature allows you to create your own categories and lists of words from the extensive library, which includes all

cross-curriculum words * History list to help you easily review the last visited words.

• See words in context with example sentences

A mobile dictionary application from MobiSystems with content from Oxford University Press.