Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, the leading college-level dictionary in America, recently collaborated with Paragon Software Group so that the eleventh edition of the said dictionary will be available to the users of the Apple Inc. devices including the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The said application may now be downloaded at the App store for only $24.99 by visiting their website: http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/.

Paragon Software Group custom-made the Merriam-Webster application so that it would take advantage of the special characteristics of device. The database of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary is made up of more than 200,000 entries. This includes the 10,000 new words as well as their respective definitions. Once downloaded, the dictionary application can be accessed any time, anywhere, even without an access to the Internet. Each word search would not also require the user additional fees as well.

The application is very user-friendly and can be accessed by a single click so that they can immediately see the definitions and the words. Through the help of the SlovoEd, the database of the application was compressed so that it would not eat much of your device’s memory space.