Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary vs Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries

Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary is a free web resource for searching medical terms and abbreviations. Users can also browse entries alphabetically through A–Z and 0–9. Merriam-Webster presents it as a way to build medical vocabulary and become a more informed health-care consumer, describing the content as an up-to-date, comprehensive medical dictionary. Access is available on the web, Android, and iOS. Its Dictionary & Thesaurus app provides Medical, Legal, and Kids dictionary definitions through an in-app subscription. Listed app features include offline access, voice search, vocabulary quizzes, favorites, and search history. Users can look up words with the search bar or voice input, and favorite words can sync between devices. Medical Dictionary definitions appear within the app’s word-search results. The website’s free plan costs nothing for searching and browsing medical terms and abbreviations. App access is offered through a monthly or annual subscription, but the pages opened do not state its price. Merriam-Webster identifies itself as an Encyclopaedia Britannica company and says professional dictionary editors and writers support its products and services. Its policy says it does not sell personal information, while describing service-provider sharing and third-party advertising.

Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries brings together seven dictionary and grammar reference titles. Its website provides the complete A–Z content of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and Oxford Advanced American Dictionary free online, along with a Text Checker, word lists and sample resources. The Oxford 3000, Oxford 5000 and Oxford Phrase List are aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Learn & Practise Grammar adds free explanations and interactive exercises in beta. The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic English has 50,000 examples and is integrated with the OPAL academic vocabulary list. OALD Premium includes iSpeaker, iWriter, My Word Lists, downloadable resources and ad-free OALD and OAAD pages. The Oxford Dictionaries API supports 35 languages and six programming languages; its tools include search filters and sentence, word and inflections endpoints. A free API sandbox trial includes 500 calls. OALD10 app access is listed at $3.99 a month, $9.99 a year or 29.99 USD once for four years.