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Dictionary

Look up any word the lessons use, with the lesson’s own meaning first.

Open the side tab on the left edge and tap Dictionary. Type a word; matching words appear as you type. Tap one, or tap Look up. You can type a word as it is in a sentence: "cells" finds cell, "mice" finds mouse.

What an entry shows

  • First, "In EduLessons lessons": what the word means in our lessons, with the lesson it comes from. Tap the lesson to open it. If a lesson is open, its meaning comes first.
  • Then the dictionary meanings, numbered, with the part of speech, an example, and similar and opposite words. Tap one of those words to look it up.
  • The first three meanings show; Show more meanings opens the rest. The speaker says the word, or a meaning.

It has about 24,000 words: every word the lessons use. In the Android app it works with no internet; on the website each part downloads the first time it is used. Dictionary meanings are from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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See also

  • Find a lesson on any topic — Type a topic and see every lesson that teaches it, in every class.
  • Flashcards — Make cards from a lesson’s key terms, study them, and see hard ones sooner.

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