List of online dictionaries

An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser. They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service. Some online dictionaries are organized as lists of words, similar to a glossary, while others offer search features, reverse lookups, and additional language tools and content such as verb conjugations, grammar references, and discussion forums.

Contents 1 Selected online English dictionaries using established content 2 Other Examples 3 See also 4 External links

Selected online English dictionaries using established content

• Oxford Dictionaries Online Oxford Dictionary of English; New Oxford American Dictionary; Oxford Thesaurus of English; Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
• Dictionary.com Dictionary.com Unabridged v. 1.1 and American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Ed.
• Ask Velazquez Velazquez Spanish and English Dictionary
• Longman Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
• Macmillan Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
• Merriam-Webster OnLine Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• Oxford University Press Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• Wiktionary A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation

Other Examples

Multilingual

• LEO (website) Free multilingual collaborative dictionary for German.
• Ultralingua Free and premium multilingual dictionary.
• Multitran, a multilingual Internet-based dictionary centered on Russian language which provide an opportunity of adding your own translation.
• Webster's Online Dictionary: The Rosetta Edition: a multilingual online dictionary which compiles different online dictionaries and encyclopedia including Wiktionary and Wikipedia.
• Pictual (website) Free Internet-based visual dictionary, English-German-French-Spanish.

Bilingual

• WWWJDIC Japanese–English
• zhongbaotong.com Chinese-Bulgarian and Bulgarian-Chinese online free dictionary.

English language

• Reference.com Word and language tool portal.
• Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• Logos Dictionary Free online with additional premium content.
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Pseudodictionary Dictionary of user submitted made-up words (humour).
• Smart Define Word definitions and thesaurus.
• Urban Dictionary Dictionary of slang.
• WordNet, a word database.
• Wordnik
• Wordweb Free and premium online English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.

Other specific languages

• Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian
• Dictionary of the Scots Language
• Susning.nu Free Swedish online dictionary, opened 2001, now defunct
• Private Sözlük Turkish collaborative dictionary
• Ekşi Sözlük Turkish collaborative dictionary
• Plattmakers Low Saxon online dictionary
• Van Dale Dictionary of the Dutch language
• Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal Dictionary of the Dutch language (free registration required)

See also

• Bilingual dictionary
• Electronic dictionary
• Encyclopedic dictionary
• Medical dictionary
• Picture dictionary
• Rhyming dictionary
• Thesaurus
• Translation dictionary
• Visual dictionary
• List of online encyclopedias

External links

• QwickUp Not a dictionary but providing access to most of popular online dictionaries simultaneously.
• Ourway English/Persian dicionary Ourway Farsi/English dictionary
• Dictionaries at the Open Directory Project

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