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Dictionaries, Glossaries, and Thesauri

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language “Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.”

OneLook Dictionaries Look for a lot of words in a lot of dictionaries.

yourDictionary.com Some 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages.

Information Please This site has several basic almanacs and dictionaries.

Glossarist; a Searchable Directory of Glossaries and Topical Dictionaries. Glossaries are organized by broad topic, with a search engine and new additions to the listings featured on the home page. Links to glossaries are annotated. Very comprehensive!

Hypertext Webster Gateway

Phrase Finder The site contains 5,000 phrases. The search works like a phrases thesaurus. Provide a single word and it will return a list of phrases and sayings that are related to the word.

Roget's Thesaurus A public-domain edition of Roget's Thesaurus

Travlang Translate travel words and phrases to foreign languages.

 


Kate Seifert
kwseifert@csupomona.edu
October 2008