Oxford Dictionaries API
The Oxford Dictionaries API is the self-service toolkit for our world-renowned dictionary data.
Built to equip and empower developers with Oxford’s diverse and customizable datasets, the Oxford Dictionaries API provides reliable, up-to-date monolingual and bilingual data in an accessible, scalable environment.
Our Oxford Dictionaries API language data is flexibly assembled to facilitate endless building possibilities and is already embedded in apps and platforms of all kinds – from learning and reading support tools, to quizzes and games, to dictionary lookups and bots.
Visit the Oxford Dictionaries API portal.
| Our features | Enable you to |
|---|---|
| 35 Supported Languages | Develop for a range of communities with large quantities of quality data from widely used and digitally under-represented languages; a unique and growing feature of the OD API. Including Hindi, Latvian, Portuguese, Swahili, and many more. |
| 6 Programming Languages | Access and code with our API in Java, Node, Objective-C, Python, Swift, and .Net/C# across all 35 of our languages datasets. |
| Search Filters | Save time and effort when accessing the OD API with our shortcut implementations; you can filter search data so you only have to handle the necessary entry results. |
| Sentence Dictionary | Bring real-life usage information to your users with editorially curated and externally sourced example sentences, encouraging greater engagement and understanding of words in context. |
| Words Endpoint | Retrieve definitions, pronunciations, word origins, and grammatical data across headwords and inflected words with just one call to the API. |
| Inflections Endpoint | Retrieve a list of all valid inflections from a single dictionary headword call to the OD API. |
| Webinars | Increase your understanding of our powerful API through our webinar series. You can find recordings of previous webinars here. |
| Definitions, Translations, Thesauri, Audio Pronunciations, Word Origins | Go beyond dictionary lookup and captivate your users with a broader understanding of the languages available in our range of endpoints. All branded with the authoritative Oxford name. |