Virtual Reference Desk: Dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online)
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Meanings, history and pronunciation for words, present and past; traces the evolution of each word through chronologically arranged quotations.
WWWebster Dictionary
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Online version of the 10th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Roget's International Thesaurus ![]()
Call Number: REF PE1591 .R73 1992
Words arranged in categories by meaning, allowing comparison of synonymous and related terms.
Rhyming Dictionary
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Find a word's rhymes, synonyms, and definitions.
TechDictionary
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Included are; computer, Internet and telecommunications terms, acronyms, emoticons or smilies, chat abbreviations, filename extensions, HTML tags, and domain suffixes.
Abbreviations.com
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Search for acronmyns and abbreviations by subject category.
Acronym Finder
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Search acronyms, abbreviations, or initialisms.
Acronyma
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Search for acronyms in several languages.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language ![]()
Call Number: REF PE1628 .A623 1992
A standard of American lexicography, illustrated. Online edition is the 4th edition c2000.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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A standard of American lexicography, illustrated. Online edition is the 4th edition c2000.
Babel Fish Translation
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A multilingual text translator - translate a block of text or a website.
Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
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This informative dictionary contains over 8,500 entries on all aspects of environmental science and conservation. Social as well as scientific in focus, it provides comprehensive coverage of the social aspect of environmental science (including treaties, organisations, and agencies relating to the environment) and ecology, as well as biographies of key figures in the field. International in scope, it embraces a broad spectrum of environmental areas including sustainable development; biodiversity; conservation; environmental ethics, philosophy, and history; resource management; sociology; and policy on the environment. It also features over 30 highlighted entries on key topics, such as Air pollution, Chernobyl, El Niņo, the Gaia hypothesis, and Ozone depletion, and 10 appendices covering a range of related subjects including international environmental treaties, the Beaufort scale, the Richter scale, the geologic timescale, and web links.
dictsearch (foreignword.com)
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Search in 275 dictionaries on the Internet. Translate from 69 source languages into 73 target languages - 400 language combinations.
EuroDicAutom
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A searchable multilingual dictionary maintained by the European Commission.
Lexicool.com
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Directory of online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet. Intended for translators, linguists, language students and all those interested in foreign languages.
Logos Dictionary
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A multilingual dictionary that allows searches on both words and phrases.
Translate Now (foreignword.com)
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Machine text translator
Webopedia
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Extensive, online dictionary for computer and internet technology.
Free contemporary dictionaries - French-English, English-French, Italian-English, English-Italian. Spanish-English, English-Spanish, German and Russian
yourDictionary.com
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Links to dictionaries in many languages.