Dictionaries & Thesauri

Dictionaries | Thesauri

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Dictionaries

English Dictionaries

Cambridge Dictionaries Online: (From Cambridge University Press)
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary: (From Carnegie-Mellon University)
CREDO reference: (Includes useful resources under the category "Dictionaries")
Dictionary of Newfoundland English Online: (Published by the University of Toronto Press)
Dictionary of Old English, Old English Corpus: (From the University of Toronto/University of Michigan)
Encarta World English Dictionary: (From Microsoft Corporation)
Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words
Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: (From Merriam-Webster)
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Reference Online: (Includes useful resources under the category "English Dictionaries and Thesauruses")
The Phrase Finder: (Provides Meanings and Origins - From Sheffield Hallam University)
RhymeZone: Rhyming Dictionary - From Lycos and Datamuse Corp.)
Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus: (From The ARTFL Project, University of Chicago)

French Dictionaries

CREDO reference: (Includes useful resources under the category "Bilinguals")
French-English Dictionary: (from ARTFL)
Oxford Reference Online: (Includes useful resources under the category "Bilingual Dictionaries")

General Dictionaries

Your Dictionary.com
OneLook Dictionaries
i Love Languages
WordReference.com
Foreign Languages for Travellers
The Glossarist

Acronyms

Acronym Finder: (Access 55,000 Acronyms - From Mountain Data Systems)
The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server: (from Ireland)

Concordances

Bible - King James Version - Concordance: (From the University of Virginia)

Quotations

Columbia World of Quotations
CREDO reference: (Includes useful resources under the category "Quotations")
Familiar Quotations: (John Bartlett's Classic, 9th ed., 1901)
Oxford Reference Online: (Includes useful resources under the category "Quotations")
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations: (Covers Quotations From 1950-1988 - From Bartleby.com)

Specialized Subject Dictionaries

Anthromorphemics: (A Glossary of Terms from Anthropology and Archaeology - From the Dept. of Anthropology, University of California - Santa Barbara)
Biotech Life Science Dictionary: (From Indiana University)
Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary: (From Duke University)
Classical Dictionary: (Terms from Classical Mythology and Art - From the Beazley Archive at Oxford)
CREDO reference: (Includes useful resources under the categories "Art; Bilinguals; Biography; Business; Food; Geography; Health; History; Humanities; Language; Law; Literature; Music; Politics; Religion; Science; Technology")
Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology: (From Academic Press)
Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names: (Includes Philosophical Terms, a Timeline, and Entries on Philosophers - From Garth Kemerling of Newberry College)
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: (E. Cobham Brewer's 1894 Classic)
Dictionary of Symbolism
Dictionary of Education PLUS: (From the University of Michigan)
Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communication Terms: (From O'Reilly and Associates)
DOD Dictionary of Military Terms
Duhaime's Law Dictionary
FOLDOC - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Geologylink Geologic Glossary: (From Houghton Mifflin)
Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: (From D. Glick of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Portland Press); (From Thomson Gale)
Glossary of Mathematics: (From Alexander Bogomolny, a Former University of Iowa Professor)
Glossary of Musical Terms: (From HNH.com)
Glossary of Parliamentary Procedures, House of Commons, Canada: (Provides Definitions of Terms Used in the House of Commons - From the Clerk of the House of Commons)
A Glossary of Political Economy Terms: (From Auburn University)
Glossary of Sociological Terms: (From the University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Greek-English Lexicon: (By Liddell and Scott)
Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms: (From Bryn Mawr College and the Animated Software Company)
Kilkoyne's (Chemistry) Glossary: (From the University of Sunderland, UK)
Linguistic Glossary: (From the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, Texas)
On-Line Medical Dictionary
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences: (From Athabaska University)
Oxford Reference Online: (Includes useful resources under the categories "Art and Architecture; Bilingual Dictionaries; Biological Sciences; Classics; Computing; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Economics and Business; English Language Reference; Food and Nutrition; History; Law; Literature; Medicine; Military History; Mythology and Folklore; Performing Arts; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Politics and Social Sciences; Religion and Philosophy; Science")
Saints and Angels
SYMBOLS.com: (Over 2,500 Graphic Symbols From the Western World)
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Victorian Dictionary
Words of Art - Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts: (From Okanagan University College, B.C.)

Thesauri

CREDO reference: (Includes useful resources under the category "Dictionaries")
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus: (From Merriam-Webster)
Oxford Reference Online: (Includes useful resources under the category "English Dictionaries and Thesauruses")
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus: (3rd Edition - From Bartleby.com)
Thesaurus.com: (From Lexico LLC)
Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus: (From The ARTFL Project, University of Chicago)

November 30, 2010
Dianne Taylor-Harding