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worduse is a monolingual American English learner dictionary for advanced learners. You look up a word, a phrasal verb, or an idiom and read the meaning a native speaker is most likely to mean in everyday American English. The whole entry stays in English. worduse does not translate a word into another language.

Each entry has the meaning in plain language, a General American pronunciation written in IPA, and audio you can play. It also has example sentences, collocations, synonyms, and idioms, so you can see how people actually use the word. When a word works as more than one part of speech, those readings stay together on one page.

Entries are written with AI assistance, then reviewed before they are indexed. A page that has not been reviewed yet is not listed in the sitemap. Headwords, definitions, examples, and pronunciation are General American. If you open a British spelling of the same word, worduse sends you to the American spelling.

If a meaning, a pronunciation, an example, or a note about how a word is used looks wrong, or if a word you need is missing, the contact page explains how to send a note about that entry.