Google Dictionary - wikipedia Google Dictionary This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2014 ) Google Dictionary The Google logo was used on the site Screenshot The Google Dictionary home page Type of site Online dictionary Available in ( see below ) Owner Google Website http://www.google.com/dictionary ( defunct ) Alexa rank 1 ( google.com ) Commercial Yes Registration optional Current status Discontinued Content license Copyright Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed by using the `` define '' operator in Google Search. It originated in its Google Translate service, and was discontinued as a separate service in August 2011. It was believed that, until August 2010, Google used many definitions from Collins COBUILD. COBUILD entries were easy to recognize by their characteristic full - sentence definitions as well as grammar codes such as ( N - VAR ), which in Google Dictionary went unexplained. In August 2010, a blog site reported that Google Dictionary switched from the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner 's English Dictionary to the Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English as its English definitions provider. This report, although close, was not quite accurate, as in fact the content now came from another Oxford dictionary, the Oxford American College Dictionary. Contents 1 Languages 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Languages Fully served Language Dictionary Pashto English Oxford American College Dictionary French German Italian Korean Spanish Russian Chinese ( Traditional ) OXFORD ADVANCED LEARNER 'S English - Chinese Dictionary Chinese ( Simplified ) Portuguese Hindi Dutch ( monolingual only ) Finnish Hebrew Czech Greek Bulgarian Croatian Serbian Bengali Malayalam Telugu Tamil Gujarati Thai Arabic Kannada Marathi Dictionary in Google Translate Language Dictionary Albanian Azerbaijani Indonesian Estonian Armenian Arabic Persian Filipino Dutch Swedish Japanese Latin Polish Latvian Lithuanian Hungarian Romanian Slovak Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Yiddish No dictionary ( translation only ) Language Dictionary yimchongru hindi yimtsunah khana mela Belarusian N / A Danish N / A Welsh N / A Galician N / A Georgian N / A Haitian Creole N / A Irish N / A Icelandic N / A Catalan N / A Macedonian N / A Malay Maltese N / A Nepali N / A Norwegian N / A Slovenian N / A Swahili N / A Urdu N / A See also Google List of Google products References Jump up ^ Brett Reynolds. `` English, Jack ''. English-jack.blogspot.com. Retrieved 23 November 2014. Jump up ^ Alex Chitu. `` Google Dictionary Has a New Content Provider ''. Google Operating System. Retrieved 23 November 2014. Jump up ^ Lew, Robert ( 17 December 2010 ). `` Online dictionaries of English ''. Repozytorium Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza ( AMUR ). Retrieved 12 June 2017. External links Google Dictionary Extension for Google Chrome Google Dictionary Online -- Provides a service via its JSON API Google Overview Alphabet Inc. 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Question: where do the definitions on google come from
Answer: the Oxford American College Dictionary