English Dictionary For MAC

[Alipix]

I am looking for a free English- English dictionary on Mac, Could you help me?

 

[Eidorian]

Is /Applications/Dictionary.app not enough?

 

[robbieduncan]

1) It's Mac not MAC: they mean different things

2) Is there something wrong with the built-in one? Dictionary.app in /Applications...

 

[mkrishnan]

I think the built-in one is great als.

But what is meant by an English-English dictionary, as opposed to an English dictionary? I know what a French-English or Japanese-English dictionary is, but I'm not 100% sure what an Eng-Eng dictionary is.

Do you mean that you want a dictionary specifically intended for use by someone who is not a native speaker of English (I think there are some dictionaries specifically built for people trying to bulk up their English vocabulary?)....

 

[Cromulent]

He wants an English dictionary as opposed to an American English dictionary which is unfortunately what is built into Mac OS X.

Or at least that is how I read it...

 

[robbieduncan]

He wants an English dictionary as opposed to an American English dictionary which is unfortunately what is built into Mac OS X.

Or at least that is how I read it...

It knows about colour as well as color...

 

[neonblue2]

Dictionary.app redirects British spellings for words.

 

[mkrishnan]

He wants an English dictionary as opposed to an American English dictionary which is unfortunately what is built into Mac OS X.

Or at least that is how I read it...

Is that term used in the UK, as opposed to "UK English" or "British English" or something of the like? In my defense I googled it and found the term used very infrequently, and only in the context of English as a Second Language.

 

[robbieduncan]

Is that term used in the UK, as opposed to "UK English" or "British English" or something of the like? In my defense I googled it and found the term used very infrequently, and only in the context of English as a Second Language.

We just tend to call it English. Yours would be American or American English.

 

[portent]

We just tend to call it English. Yours would be American or American English.

Nationalistic posturing aside, English is a language; the American, Austrailian, British, Indian, etc. variants are properly called dialects.

If you can't grasp that, then you really don't understand English, or probably any other language.

 

[Nermal]

We just tend to call it English. Yours would be American or American English.

Or Simplified English

 

[localoid]

From: Get Leopard to use British English spelling?

Going to system preferences/international/languages (not "input menu") and putting British English at the top of the list should normally do the trick, but have you also tried going to Edit > Spelling > Spelling > Dictionary and set that to British English?

Use the Edit button in the languages pane if British English is not yet on the list.

 

[Alipix]

1) It's Mac not MAC: they mean different things

2) Is there something wrong with the built-in one? Dictionary.app in /Applications...

you are right, but I don't like the interface design of buit-in Application.
do you know another option?

I think the built-in one is great als.

But what is meant by an English-English dictionary, as opposed to an English dictionary? I know what a French-English or Japanese-English dictionary is, but I'm not 100% sure what an Eng-Eng dictionary is.

Do you mean that you want a dictionary specifically intended for use by someone who is not a native speaker of English (I think there are some dictionaries specifically built for people trying to bulk up their English vocabulary?)....

I mean something like this; don't get you in trouble
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English