Free Online Dictionaries
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Encarta World English Dictionary is offered free online by Microsoft. Very comprehensive free dictionary. Includes English definitions of words, how to prounounce words (phonic and sound), and example phrases to show word use. Encarta World English Dictionary.
Dictionaries.Com offers lots of dictionaries offered in this free online dictionary resource. Dictionary.Com has an online language translator for multiple languages. There are also English definitions of words, antonyms, phonic pronunciations and a free online thesaurus. Dictionary.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary is a very well-known online free dictionary that also has a free thesaurus lookup service for users. Also included are English definitions, illustrations of words, phonic pronunciations of words, sound pronunciations of words, explanations of word origins and a free online thesaurus. Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
The Free Dictionary is, as the name implies, a free dictionary online.... also has a free thesaurus. The Free Dictionary.
Word Reference offers a free online dictionary and the facility to look up words in different languages. WordReference.com
American Heritage Dictionary offers a reference tool for all - free. American Heritage Dictionary.
Webster's 1913 Dicionary is a public domain free online dictionary resource but can be less than useful in looking up more modern words (since 1913). Webster's 1913 Dicionary.
Cambridge International Dictionaries is a free online dictionary from the place where it all started, England. Cambridge International Dictionaries.
Wordnet is an online dictionary (I think) that enables the lookup of the usual dictionary words PLUS words in common usage. The word database can also be downloaded and run locally on Windows and Unix systems. The Wordnet database is available in multiple languages and is free to use. Quote from the page: "WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing." WordNet.
Wiktionary is a collaborative project to produce a free, multilingual dictionary with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations. It is available online translated to many languages and is a free, open source dictionary project. Wiktionary.
More Free Online Dictionaries
infoplease - The InfoPlease Dictionary.
OneLook Dictionaries - OneLook Dictionary.
Fact Monster - Fact Monster is an online dictionary resource.
Web of On-line dictionaries - A collection of online dictionaries on specialist topics. Dictionary categories include (but are not limited to): Advertising Agriculture Architecture Art Automobiles Biography Biology Botany Business Children Collecting Computing Crosswords Dentistry Dialects Economics Education Engineering Environment Etymology Finance Fishing Games Gastronomy Genealogy Geography Geology History Humor Hunting Insurance Internet Investment Law Library Linguistics Literature Mathematics Media Medicine Military Multimedia Music Philosophy Physics Politics Printing Professions Psychology Railroads Real Estate Recreation Religion Rhetoric Sailing Shipping Science Slang Sociology Space Sports Telecom Theater Tools Textiles Travel. There are also multilingual dictionaries and foreign language dictionaries listed. Web of On-line dictionaries
YourDictionary - Your Dictionary, online dictionary.
AskOxford.com - Ask Oxford online dictionary.
AllWords.com - All Words online dictionary.
List of Dictionaries - A big list of dictionaries.
HyperDictionary - Hyper Dictionary online Dictionary.
alpha Dictionary.com - Alpha Dictionary online Dictionary.
Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus - Word Smyth online Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Merriam-Webster's Word Central - Start page for the Merriam-Webster online dictionaries and word resources.
DICT.org - Online dictionary.
WordIQ.com - Online dictionary.
HEINLE'S Newbury House Dictionary
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