American Heritage Dictionary

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Support

The app listing provides a support email of [email protected].Read 9 Oct 2026 · play.google.com

Company

HarperCollins says it is headquartered in New York and was established in March 1817.Read 9 Oct 2026 · harpercollins.com

Android app privacy

Google Play reports that the app may collect financial information and device or other IDs, encrypts data in transit, and says collected data cannot be deleted.Read 9 Oct 2026 · play.google.com

Android offline and learning

The Android app listing says it supports offline lookup, favorites, recent searches, a word-of-the-day section, and a home-screen widget.Read 9 Oct 2026 · play.google.com

Android search tools

The Android app listing describes autocomplete, compound-word lookup, fuzzy and wildcard search, camera search, and voice search.Read 9 Oct 2026 · play.google.com

App integrations

The Android app listing says Tap to Translate can translate words in other Android apps and definitions can be shared through installed apps.Read 9 Oct 2026 · play.google.com

Dictionary edition

The online dictionary presents the Fifth Edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.Read 9 Oct 2026 · ahdictionary.com

Editorial features

The dictionary includes usage notes, word histories, notes on language variation, synonym paragraphs, and illustrative examples.Read 9 Oct 2026 · ahdictionary.com

Etymology

Thousands of entries trace word origins, with online appendices for Indo-European and Semitic roots.Read 9 Oct 2026 · ahdictionary.com

Pronunciation

Dictionary entries include audio pronunciation that users can play from a speaker icon.Read 9 Oct 2026 · ahdictionary.com

Usage guidance

The Usage Panel includes nearly 200 scholars, writers, journalists, diplomats, and others, and annual surveys assess particular usages and grammatical constructions.Read 9 Oct 2026 · ahdictionary.com

Word lookup

The site lets users search for dictionary entries and recommends using quotation marks before compound words that do not appear in search suggestions.Read 9 Oct 2026 · ahdictionary.com

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