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University Library

Online reference : dictionaries

Included are:

  • Dictionaries of language and of usage available online
  • Dictionaries on CD-ROM (for use in Durham only)

Many more dictionaries are available in the Library in printed form.

English dictionaries
AskOxford.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus
Thesaurus.com
Foreign-language dictionaries
Collins French/English
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online - includes Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian
Quickdic (German-English)
Links to dictionary collections

yourDictionary.com

offers links to language dictionaries for dozens of languages, to multilingual dictionaries, and to thesauri and grammars

WordReference.com online translation dictionaries for French, Italian and Spanish

Yahoo! language dictionary collection

links to dictionaries for many languages

Dictionaries

from the University of Paderborn

Internet Resources for Language Teachers and Learners

including dictionaries and grammars; developed by Fred Riley whilst at University of Hull.

AlphaDictionary

from 'Dr Goodword'

BUBL dictionary collection

links to dictionaries of all kinds


Websters Online Dictionary
Webster's 1913 unabridged dictionary with added and updated definitions, thousands of images, quotes, trade names, references, timelines and translations covering hundreds of languages.

Web directory

Web directory of dictionaries from Dictionary.com