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Merriam-Webster OnLine - http://www.m-w.com/
A free, searchable on-line dictionary and thesaurus, word games, a word of the day, and many other English language and vocabulary reference tools and resources. |
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Cambridge International Dictionaries - http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Free online dictionary from Cambridge University Press. |
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Inter Active Terminology for Europe (IATE) - http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/
The European Commission's multilingual term bank. Particularly rich in technical and specialized terminology related to European Union policy. |
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Farlex Free Dictionary - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Collection of dictionaries by subject including medical and legal together with free and subscription encyclopedias, in ten languages. |
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DICT Development Group - http://www.dict.org/
A WWW interface to several freely available on-line dictionaries, including Webster's 1913, the Jargon File, the US Gazetteer, and Easton's Bible Dictionary. |
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Information Please Dictionary - http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary.html
Infoplease's free online dictionary. Features almanacs, an encyclopedia, and an atlas. |
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Word Spy - http://www.wordspy.com/
Site dedicated to recently coined words and existing words revived into modern usage. |
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Webster's Online Dictionary: The Rosetta Edition - http://www.websters-online-dictionary.com
This database doubled with a metasearch tool extracts records from a variety of online and public-domain paper dictionaries, both general and specialized. It offers English definitions, as well as translations from/to a hundred languages. |
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Word Central - http://www.wordcentral.com/
Student dictionary and rhyming dictionary online at Merriam-Webster's website. Daily Buzzword by subscription. |
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HyperDictionary.com - http://www.hyperdictionary.com/
Includes a thesaurus and searchable dictionaries for English, computers, dreams and medicine. |
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Voycabulary - http://www.voycabulary.com/
Online dictionary and thesaurus web linking lookup reference tool. |
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The Newbury House Online Dictionary - http://nhd.heinle.com/
Search over 40,000 entries to get clear concise definitions and when available related pictures. |
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Dictionary of Difficult Words - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/
Search or browse this dictionary of more than 13,000 words. |
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Skeptic's Dictionary - http://skepdic.com/
Skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal, supernatural and pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to the best skeptical literature. |
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KnowPlay? - http://www.kplay.cc/reference.html
Simple and integrated access to dictionaries, thesauri, encylopedias, and quotation databases. |
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Hypertext Webster Gateway - http://www.bennetyee.org/http_webster.cgi
WWW interface to multiple English dictionaries. |
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Dictsearch - http://www.foreignword.com/Tools/dictsrch.htm
Search a variety of dictionaries including monolingual, bilingual, and specialty dictionaries. |
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The Century Dictionary Online - http://www.global-language.com/CENTURY/
Free 500,000 word dictionary of English with an encyclopedia and world atlas. Uses DjVu and JPEG formats to display page images. Has headword lookup and full text search of 22 million words of underlying text. |
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On-Line Dictionaries - http://www.ets.ru/udict-e.htm
Online specialty dictionaries for English, Russian, German, Finnish and Latin. |
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http://wordweb.info/free/ - http://wordweb.info/free/
A free English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. |
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Quotations: The Yale Dictionary - http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/qyd/
Project to create a searchable online database and a quotation dictionary from Yale University Press. |
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Glossaries - http://frankdietz.com/glossary.htm
Collection of more than 2400 links to glossaries and dictionaries. |
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Cooldictionary.com - http://www.cooldictionary.com/
Free edition of a complete Webster dictionary. Fully crosslinked. |
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Dictionary Society of North America - http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dsna/index.html
An international organization of librarians, booksellers, translators, linguists, publishers, writers, journalists, and collectors. Founded in 1975 to further research in dictionary making, study, collection, and use. Member of the American Council of Learned Societies. |
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Word Assault - http://www.wordassault.com/
Looks up multiple words simultaneously using several databases including Webster's, Easton's, Wordnet, and the Devil's Dictionary. |
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eLook Dictionary - http://www.elook.org/dictionary/
Provides definitions, synonyms, and related words. |
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The Online Dictionary List - http://www.clearenglish.net/dictionary.htm
A large directory of online dictionaries, both in English and bilingual, including specialist dictionaries. |
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Web Dictionaries - http://www.tinhvan.com/scripts/tvis/webdict/webdict.pl
Multi-search tool by Tinh Van, which consults English-only dictionaries, and Vietnamese into English or French translation dictionaries. |
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OneLook Dictionaries - http://www.onelook.com/
Look up a word or term in an Internet dictionary or glossary. Free search access to a frequently updated database of words, terms, names, and acronyms. |
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AllWords.com - http://www.allwords.com/
Features two modern English dictionaries, multilingual search, and translation. Also features a guide to language sites on the web and a language discussion forum. |
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Research-It - http://www.itools.com/
Includes several dictionaries and a thesaurus as well as online tools for shipping and mailing, currency exchange, and language translation. |
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Worthless Word for the Day - http://home.comcast.net/~wwftd/
Word-a-day server delivers obscure words not from medical, legal or other professional jargon, with definitions and use citations. Extensive links. |
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Dictionary of Comprehension - http://www.dictionarydictionary.com/
A Dictionary of Comprehension in different languages. |
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Dictionary Building Software for Reporters - http://www.dictionaryjumpstart.com/
Software program for realtime reporters and captioners that lists many diverse vocabulary lists. |
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Online Dictionaries, Translators and References - http://www.esldesk.com/dictionaries/index.htm
Online dictionaries, translators, references accessible from a small pop-window. Requires use of a browser with Java script enabled. |