Dictionaries

English Language Dictionaries and Thesauri

• Oxford English Dictionary - Find the meaning, history, pronunciation of half a million words [more details].
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - A basic dictionary with audio word pronunciations and illustrations.
• Merriam-Webster Online - A basic dictionary with audio word pronunciations, a thesaurus, and an English-Spanish dictionary.
• Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online - Find words by viewing the images they represent.
• netLibrary Reference Center -Search dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference sources [more details].
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus - Search 35,000 synonyms to find various ways to express your intended meaning.
• Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases - Search 85,000 synonyms.
• Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary - The most comprehensive source of its kind.
• Acronym Finder - Find definitions of 475,000 acronyms or search for acronyms by subject.
• Copyeditor's Handbook - A short glossary of symbols used in editing papers and manuscripts.
• Symbols.com - An online dictionary of Western signs and ideograms.

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Foreign Language Dictionaries

• Consulta (UHD database) - Includes Spanish dictionaries and English-Spanish dictionaries [more details].
• Diccionarios de la real academic de la lengua - Online version of the premier Spanish language dictionary.
• Le Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé - An online French dictionary.
• Language Dictionaries and Translators - A guide to free dictionaries and translators.
• Ultralingual Translation Dictionaries - Translate French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish words to English.
• WordReference.com - French, Italian, and Spanish dictionaries.

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