Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Thesauri
Dictionaries
- WWWebster Dictionary
- Maintained by Merriam-Webster, Inc., this site allows users to look up a word or phrase's meaning. The resulting definition also includes a thesaurus function.
- travlang's Translating Dictionaries
- This extensive commercial multilingual dictionary website allows users to translate words from one language to another. Languages include English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Danish and many others.
- yourDictionary.com
- This large, multilingual dictionary website links users to more than 500 dictionaries of
over 140 different languages.
- OneLook Dictionaries
- OneLook's strength is easy, one-search access to over 300 specialized dictionaries covering a wide variety of fields: advertising, botany, medicine, mythology, etc.
Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia.com
- Based on The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, this website enables users to access "current information available in all major fields of knowledge" and contains more than17,000 short articles, providing "free, quick and useful information on almost any topic."
- 1911 Edition Encyclopedia
- Peruse the text of the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 29 volumes in all, which is in the public domain. This encyclopedia was put online by Byron Reese, chief executive of the reference site Pagewise.com.
Thesauri
- Roget's Thesaurus (ARTFLProject)
- Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus version 1.02 (supplemented: July 1991), released to the public domain by MICRA, Inc. and the Gutenberg Project.
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