Oxford Dictionary has added monolingual dictionaries in Spanish, French, and German, bringing its library to 18 authoritative dictionaries in one app. The new additions extend the same depth of reference to three more languages, each with its own Word of the Day.
Three additions to a trusted library
The Larousse Spanish Monolingual Dictionary, the Oxford Quebec French Monolingual Dictionary, and the Pons German Monolingual Dictionary join a library already recognized for the depth of its scholarship.
Each dictionary is created by specialists in its language, with definitions that bring together meaning, context, nuance, and real-world usage examples.
For people reading, writing, or studying in Spanish, French, or German, monolingual dictionaries offer a deeper understanding of a word, including its different meanings, register, and how it is used in context.
Word of the Day, now in four languages
Word of the Day stands among the features readers value most, and it now appears in Spanish, French, and German as well as English. A single word each day, presented with its definition and its usage, in whichever of the four languages a reader has chosen to study.
The appeal of the feature lies in its rhythm: one word, considered daily, accumulates across a year into a vocabulary of real substance. Offered now in four languages, the daily word follows the default dictionary selected in the app, arriving in the language its reader already works in.
Continuity across every device
Favourites, a feature readers have long valued, now carries further capability under the name Sync Favourites: words saved for later study synchronize across every device on which the application is installed. Saved words may also be arranged into custom folders, so that vocabulary gathered for an examination, a translation, or a particular field of reading is held as a set rather than a single undifferentiated list.
Synchronization follows a reader's account, carrying words and folders between the devices on which that account is signed in. Vocabulary is gathered in fragments across a day and across devices, and both the words and the folders that organize them are now kept in a single place, ready wherever study resumes.
A commitment to our growing community
These additions began with our community, which continues to grow steadily, and with the widening range of what its readers choose to study. The library has grown alongside them, and a reference of this standing is shaped as much by the community consulting it as by the scholarship behind it.
It arrives as a natural step within a collaboration with Oxford Languages now more than 20 years old, a partnership that carried Oxford's reference works from the printed page to a platform relied upon by millions of readers worldwide. You can read more about that history in the story of how the MobiSystems and Oxford Languages partnership shaped the Oxford Dictionary app.
As that growth continues, so does the value we place on listening closely to it. Our focus remains where it has always been: on deepening the library, strengthening the features that surround it, and continuing to merit the trust our readers place in both.
A wider reference, available now
With three new monolingual dictionaries, Word of the Day in four languages, and favourite words that can stay with users across devices, Oxford Dictionary now brings together 18 dictionaries in one app.
Oxford Dictionary is available for iOS, Android, and Windows. The new dictionaries and features are included in the current release and will become available as users receive the latest update.
Frequently asked questions
A monolingual dictionary defines words in the same language as the word itself, a Spanish term defined in Spanish rather than rendered into English. It offers the register, nuance, and idiomatic usage of a word as native lexicography records them.
The application brings together 18 Oxford Dictionaries. The monolingual titles are the Oxford Dictionary of English & Thesaurus, the New Oxford American Dictionary & Thesaurus, the Larousse Spanish Monolingual Dictionary, the Oxford Quebec French Monolingual Dictionary, and the Pons German Monolingual Dictionary, alongside the bilingual dictionaries comprising the remainder of the library.
Word of the Day appears in English, Spanish, French, and German, following the default dictionary selected in the app. Notifications may be enabled in settings so that each day's word arrives automatically.
When signed in, users can sync words saved to Favourites across their devices. Saved words can also be arranged into custom folders to make vocabulary easier to organize and revisit.
Oxford Dictionary is available for iOS, Android, and Windows.
Oxford Dictionary is free to download, with a Premium tier providing offline use.
