Cambridge Dictionary vs Treccani

Cambridge Dictionary is an online reference offering English learner, academic, and business dictionaries, plus bilingual translation dictionaries. Its content draws on the Cambridge English Corpus, which Cambridge says contains more than 1.5 billion words of real English. Pronunciation pages provide British and American audio, phonetic transcriptions, and videos illustrating words and sentences. The thesaurus includes synonyms, antonyms, examples, and explanations of differences between words and phrases in British and American English. Cambridge Dictionary +Plus adds quizzes, word lists, and word games; users can create, download, and share free lists and quizzes, with up to 500 words in each list. The online plan costs nothing and includes dictionaries and +Plus word lists and quizzes. Cambridge also offers an API, a free double-click dictionary search for websites, and search widgets. Access is listed for web, Android, iOS, and extensions, with 29 languages covered. Cambridge Dictionaries Online began offering dictionaries free of charge in 1999.

Treccani is a reference portal and app with an online encyclopedia, vocabulary, synonyms, a biographical dictionary, a magazine, and Galassia Treccani. Readers can access encyclopedia entries on the web, Android, and iOS; the app also offers a daily word and articles about Italian language, geopolitics, science, and society. The online Dizionario Biografico contains more than 40,000 biographies of people who contributed to Italian history across several fields. Treccani’s Institute describes its mission as compiling, updating, publishing, and disseminating the Enciclopedia Italiana and related works for culture, education, research, and social service. Browsing the portal without ads across devices is available through Zero pubblicità, which must be activated in the app. Its subscription page advertises up to six months free, with duration selected in the app; no price is listed. A personal profile requires registration or sign-in. Treccani identifies its Institute as data controller and says personal data is processed under GDPR, with possible transfers outside the EU under adequacy decisions or appropriate safeguards.