Reference.com
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Reference.com is an online information source (encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, etc.) produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. In mid-2007, it typically ranked in the mid-200s among the most popular sites on the Internet.[1]
Search results on it come from:
- Dictionary.com Unabridged
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
- The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary
- Wall Street Words
- Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
- Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Wikipedia
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- WordNet
- Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- Jargon File
- CIA World Factbook
- Easton’s 1897 Bible Dictionary
- Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary
- U.S. Gazetteer
- Columbia Encyclopedia
- Crystal Reference Encyclopedia
On July 17, 2007 Answers.com announced it will acquire Lexico Publishing Group, LLC and all its underlying properties.
[edit] Major competitors
- Answers.com
- OneLook
