Online Dictionary. Thesaurus, Acronym and Language Usage Websites
| Standard | Specialist | Acronyms | Translation |
Standard Dictionaries
Ask Oxford - Dictionary Search, Ask the Experts, Better Writing, World of Words, Games, Global
English and Foreign Languages.
Cambridge Dictionary - Advanced, American English, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs
Dictionary.com - online Dictionary and Thesaurus with free and subscriber options.
Infoplease - online Dictionary and Thesaurus with more than 125,000 entries.
Merriam-Webster - online Dictionary and Thesaurus; word of the day, word games
OneLook - searches an array of online dictionaries and encyclopedias plus Translating dictionaries
and Reverse-lookup
Bartleby - internet publisher of literature, reference and verse for students/ researchers including:
Columbia Encyclopedia
American Heritage Dictionary
Roget's II Thesaurus
American Heritage Book of English Usage
Columbia World of Quotations
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
King James Bible
Oxford Shakespeare
Gray's Anatomy
Strunk's Elements of Style
World Factbook
Columbia Gazetteer
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Specialist Dictionaries
Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation - in-depth reference of American English usage
Biographical Dictionary - more than 28,000 notable men and women
Biography.com - over 25,000 entries of notable lives
Brewer's Phrase and Fable
BuzzWhack - dedicated to de-mystifying buzzwords
Chambers Word Wizards - Instantly solve scrabble, crossword and anagram posers
Cliche Finder - find that perfect cliche!
Dream Dictionary - search or browse dream interpretations by topic
(not available 14/03/05 - http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dream)
Economist Business Dictionary - search, browse or view by category
English Slang Dictionary - an online dictionary of the rich colourful language we call slang... from
a British perspective including Cockney Rhyming Slang!
Etymology Dictionary - etymologies are explanations of what our words meant
Latin and Greek headwords
Medical Dictionary - explanations of medical terms and diseases.
(not available 14/03/05 - http://www.hyperdictionary.com/medical)
Phobia List - the names of every kind of phobia you could ever imagine
Quotations - search 13,500 quotations
Rhyming Dictionary - rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, similar sounding, homophones, etc
Skeptics Dictionary - strange beliefs, deceptions and delusions
Symbols - more than 2500 western symbolcs from ideograms in mammoth teeth to graffiti
Acronyms
Acronym Server - searchable database
Acronym Finder - searchable database for acronyms and abbreviations
Acronym Search - searchable database that you can add your company-specific acronym
Journal Abbreviations - provides access to full titles of journal abbreviations
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