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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged 1913 Ed.
WordNet online lexical system developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University.
Wordsmyth:The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus.
Your Dictionary.com word lists, dictionaries and thesauri for over 130 languages (R. Beard, Bucknell University; formerly Web of Online Dictionaries).

French: ARTFL Project 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.

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."

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