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[edit] Dictionaries
[edit] "Proper" dictionaries
- OneLook Dictionary Search - (searches many others - including Wiktionary) - To search many online dictionaries at once, great for American and British English, check spellings and definitions. Dictionary and thesaurus.
- Merriam-Webster Online American English as main entries, but include British English as 'See-also' entries. Dictionary and thesaurus.
- World Wide Words
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000
- ThesaurusDictionary.com
- Well-categorized dictionary, including a "difficult words" category
- StarDict - with sound files
- http://www.hyperdictionary.com that includes Webster dictionary.
- http://www.thefreedictionary.com
- http://www.lexicool.com/
[edit] General Public License dictionaries
[edit] Public domain dictionaries
- Jargon File Resources (public domain)
- Hypertext Webster Gateway at BennetYee.org (includes results from Webster-1913)
- ARTFL Webster-1913
- Bootleg Books Webster-1913
- Century Dictionary (1911). Requires DJVU plugin.
[edit] Foreign language dictionaries
- Reta Vortaro (an Esperanto dictionary)
- η Πύλη (Greek language portal)
- Diccionario de la lengua española © 2005 Espasa Calpe (Spanish monolingual)
- Real Academia Española has two Spanish monolingual dictionaries: "Diccionario de la lengua española" and "Diccionario panhispánico de dudas"
- An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language - Public Domain English dictionary of Scottish Gaelic.
[edit] Creative Commons Dictionaries
[edit] Slang
- Urbandictionary - wiki-esque slang dictionary
- Slangdictionary (self-explanatory)
- rapdict- Wiki-based AAVE dictionary
[edit] Jargon
[edit] Other language sites
- Wordnet: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
- Wordnet's license: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/license.shtml
- Language-reference: http://www.language-reference.com - Cross-foreign-language lexicon powered by its own search engine. All cross combinations between French, German, Italian, Latin and Spanish.
- Cambridge Dictionary: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ - a British dictionary, also recognises American spellings. Dictionary.
- One click will switch you to one of the following Cambridge dictionaries: American, Learner's, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, French / English, Spanish / English (just follow the link above).
- Dictionary.com can check American and British spelling - refers to several other dictionaries, this is the spell checker used by google. Dictionary and thesaurus.
- Online dictionary free multi-lingual online dictionary between English and nine modern languages - Spanish dictionary, French, German, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Latin, Chinese and Japanese dictionary.
- Dictionary Swedish Latin free dictionary for Swedish and Latin.
- The Compleat Lexical Tutor free tools
