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Online Reference Shelf: Dictionaries, Thesauri & Acronyms/Abbreviations
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Dictionaries
The Century Dictionary Online
"the largest freely available online dictionary."
Dictionary of Slang
by Ted Duckworth; from a British perspective; also includes words and phrases that originate from outside the UK and indicates the country of origin, if known.
Hypertext Webster Gateway
access various dictionary services.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition
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Webster's Revised Unabridged 1913 Ed
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WordNet
online lexical system developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University.
Wordsmyth:The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
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Your Dictionary.com
word lists, dictionaries and thesauri for over 130 languages (R. Beard, Bucknell University; formerly Web of Online Dictionaries).
Foreign Language Dictionaries
French:
ARTFL Projec
t
French-English dictionary,
ARTFL-FRANTEXT
(formerly TFL Dictionary Form), and
Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
.
German:
English-German Dictionary by Wolfram Schneider
, and
German-English/English German Dictionary
.
Italian:
Reverso
Italian-English dictionary.
Russian:
Rustran.com
Russian-English dictionary.
Spanish:
SpanishDict
Spanish-English dictionary and translator.
Multiple Languages:
WordReference.com
translates from English to Spanish, French, Italian, German, or Russian and
Princeton University Library: Recommended Language Dictionaries
recommended by librarians.
Thesauri
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
find English names for places named in foreign languages.
Internet Thesaurus
thesaurus and other reference tools online.
Roget's Thesaurus
1911 edition; "supplemented: July, 1991."
Acronyms & Abbreviations
Acronym Finder
searchable database containing common acronyms, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.
The Internet Acronym Server
search for acronyms collected from internet resources.
Internet Acroynm Dictionary
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