Open Dictionary of English

Open Dictionary of English (ODE)
Logo Open Dictionary of English
Slogan	Your Life: Powered by Words.
Type of site	Nonprofit
Registration	Optional
Available in	English and word translations in 37 languages
Launched	Beta launch, May 2012
Revenue	LearnThatWord premium memberships, sponsorship, donations, grants
Alexa rank	191,944 worldwide, 73,441 in the U.S. ^[1]

The Open Dictionary of English (ODE, after the OED) is a multimedia learners' dictionary, published by 501(c)3 nonprofit organization LearnThat Foundation. It is fully integrated with LearnThatWord, the vocabulary and spelling tutoring program by LearnThat Foundation, and can also be used as a standalone dictionary.

The Open Dictionary of English cherishes English as a global language. Its goal is to connect learners with words illustrating their usage and nuances in a lively multimedia format.

Genesis

The ODE contains around 180,000 words. Word data is assorted from a range of online sources. The Open Dictionary of English is a collaborative project, based on Open Source materials, LearnThat's own resources, and partner APIs. It contains data from WordNet/Princeton University and Wiktionary, Google, Wordnik.com, Dictionary.com, Stands4.com, YouTube.com, OEDILF.com, Kylescholz.com, Best-Practice.com, and Forvo.com.

Features

The Open Dictionary of English offers:

• Videos and video snippets showing word usage • Images • Pronunciations from around the world • Interactive thesaurus • Hundreds of usage examples for each word • Idioms and limericks • Definitions from multiple sources • Translations in 37 languages • Synonyms, antonyms • Words that rhyme • Origin and root word information • Verb conjugations • Tutoring comments and trivia • Integrated LearnThatWord tutoring

Users can add, edit and flag resources, and a team of human editors reviews changes before including them in the resource.

The dictionary is currently in Public Beta.

References

↑ Site Information from Alexa Alexa Internet. Accessed February 23, 2013.

External links

Dictionaries of English

Old and Middle English	An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Dict. of Old English Middle English Dictionary

Historic	Edward Phillips' (1658) John Kersey's (1702) Nathan Bailey's (1721) Samuel Johnson's (1755) Noah Webster's (1828) Century (1889–91)

American English	American Heritage Dict. of American English Dict. of American Regional English Imperial Dictionary New Oxford American Oxford American Random House Webster's Webster's New World Webster's Third New International World Book Dictionary

British English	Chambers Collins Oxford English, Concise Oxford English, Shorter Oxford English, Historical Thesaurus, Oxford Dictionary of English Penguin

Canadian English	List of Canadian English dictionaries

Australian English	Australian National Australian Oxford Macquarie

Online	Wiktionary Collaborative International Dict. of English OmegaWiki Urban Dictionary Wordnik

Learners / ESL	Cambridge Advanced Learner's Collins COBUILD Advanced Longman Dict. of Contemporary English Macmillan English Dict. for Advanced Learners Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Oxford Advanced Learner's

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