Oxford Dictionaries API

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World-renowned monolingual and bilingual dictionary data

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Oxford Dictionaries is at the forefront of lexical research and our products will help you succeed whether you are building a game, learning application, or next-generation speech and text technology

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Games

Enhance word games with definition lookups

Bots and AI

Accurate, structured data and large corpora help solve many language problems

Learning

Audio, examples and synonyms are just some data types that can help learners

Research

Trusted, deep content for academic research, often for free!

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