Overall, the Oxford Dictionary is useful to your library if you need to find words that you have forgotten or must learn. The design of the application is much cleaner than the Oxford program. However, they also give quizzes to help you learn more English. Merriam-Webster, on the other hand, provides fewer words but is free. They contain the same information, but the phone application has ads and does not allow you to download words without paying. There is a mobile app version of Oxford’s Dictionary with a free and subscription edition, unlike the Windows edition. Everything is laid out in an organized fashion, but it is somewhat overwhelming. The layout of the Window’s application is clear, with each word being dissected into the smaller parts and different definitions. It does have a few things like sentence examples and audio pronunciations to help the user learn English, but it falls short of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Presentation It includes keyword searches to determine if what the person is searching for is part of another word.
