Collins Greek Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad
4.0 (
2560 ratings )
Reference
Education
Developer:
MobiSystems, Inc.
21.99 USD
Current version:
8.5.4, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 12 Jul 2009
App size: 82.71 Mb
Designed for learners of both Greek and English, the Collins Greek Dictionary provides a wealth of information about both languages.
• Compiled and illustrated by thousands of real-language examples from a corpus of modern Greek.
• The most frequent Greek words are covered in-depth and usage notes are given throughout the text.
• Accurate translations and in-depth treatment of the most frequently used words in English to guide learners to the most appropriate translation.
• Clear layout ensures that the learner finds the information they need quickly and easily.
LATEST APP UPDАТES:
• Learn in style with any of the four colorful new themes – The colorful layout will turn your learning experience into an enjoyable routine. Customize your dictionary and benefit from the cheerful mood your favorite color brings you.
• Dive right into the intricacies of the language - With new and convenient Home page, sleeker and more intuitive visual layout, as well as innovations in the speed of searches, you can get to the desired entry faster than ever.
SEARCH TOOLS - quickly find words with the clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface.
Designed to provide the most comprehensive search experience, the dictionary combines several search tools to match or predict what are you looking for, including:
• Search autocomplete helps you find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type.
• Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases.
• Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results in seconds.
• Voice search helps you find an entry when you don’t know how a word is spelled.
Looking for a specific word but dont know how its spelled? Weve got you covered with our automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ to correct word spelling, as well as ‘Wild card’ (* or ?) to replace a letter or entire parts of a word.
LEARNING TOOLS - engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary. Designed to give you freedom to structure your studies, the dictionary combines several learning tools to help you be more organized, including:
• ‘Favorites’ that allow you to create custom folders with lists of words.
• Recent list which helps you to easily review looked-up words.
• Swipe-to-delete functionality in the Recent and Favorites menus.
• Word-of-the-day option to teach you a new word every day.
Feel excited by the new word or definition you just learned? Share your discovery with friends on social media, email or any other option available on your device.
Pros and cons of Collins Greek Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad
Collins Greek Dictionary app good for
Best Greek dictionary for your mobile. It never let me down. Brilliant!
I couldnt use this application after Ive updated iPhone OS from 3.0 to 4.0.
But as soon as I reported this rating, the bug had been improved.
Its support was really rapid.
Thank you.
Wonderful update which allows easy search for words AND most importantly allows for a user to quickly go back to their place in a dictionary - just like a book - for looking up words before and after the word(s) they just looked up. Great for learners of any language.
This is a good dictionary. However, at 20 dollars a pop they really should have included an audio pronunciation guide with each word. My Greek is horrible and, like most students, need to match up with a native speaker. It REALLY needs an update. With audio this is easily a five star application.
I have used the Collins Gem Greek-English, English-Greek dictionary for years. It is the BEST small/pocket dictionary of its type!! However, for this price, it should contain many more words and the ability to add words.
Very good dictionary, very thorough. Only needs IPA phonetic entries for Greek to be complete. Meanwhile I use the Collins Mini Gem Audio Greek dictionary to listen to native Greek. Will rate 5 stars when dictionary has phonetic transcriptions. Hopefully they will also add verb conjugations.
Some bad moments
I am so disppointed with the latest update !!! Apart from being rather ugly it has changed some features (for example the star symbol for favourites no longer appears you need to look for it).
All games are in english and should be in greek as well.
Some words exist in the english=> greek version but not the other way around.
Reflexive/passive form of greek verbs are on the same "page" and so you cannot search most passive forms by themselves which is not helpful.
This dictionnary seems made for greeks trying to learn english and is ignoring the fact that it is very much used by foreigners trying to learn greek. Real shame.
I love this app but now I cant use it since it crashes once I open it. It would also be great if I could put my own words into to dictionary. Plz fix the crash error
We should all expect a lot more from electronic dictionairies. A dictionary for Greek should conjugate every verb in every tense and mood, and every noun and every adjective in every case. It should be possible to look up every word in every form in which it occurs. This one does not even give the genders or the plural forms of nouns. These can usually be predicted from the nominative singular endings, but its not easy, and we should not have to work so hard. There are no verb conjugations at all. So many common words cannot be looked up at all. The Collins German-English dictionary at least provides a complete conjugation table for every verb and the genders and plurals of nouns. So theres no excuse for not doing a little better with the Greek.
