Just about everyone has used Google to look up the definition of a word before. You know, you just type in the word "define" followed by the word you want to look up and the definition will appear ...

Tired of online dictionaries that are so cluttered with ads, you can barely find the definition? Check out Word Source, an ad-free dictionary/thesaurus outfitted with some nifty Web 2.0 trappings.

Developed by Benjamin Mayo, Writing Aid is a $0.99 iPhone app that combines word definitions with meanings and synonyms. Based off a single search field where you can type what you’re looking for, ...

Last week, we spotted the Google app adding an Android homescreen shortcut to the built-in dictionary tool. The search engine is now tweaking the layout of definition cards by making synonyms more ...

The English language is, indeed, a quirky one: it's notoriously difficult to learn, and often words have more than one meaning. Some of these words are called homographs. They're spelled identically ...