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The complete Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus online -- free and searchable with definitions and audio pronunications. You can also read the Word of the Day, play Word Games, and purchase books and CDs.

The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form

Onelook searches hundreds of dictionaries for you.

OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept.

Welcome to open dictionary, a collaborative project to produce a freely accessible multilingual dictionary in every language, with meanings, etymologies and pronunciations with the aid of the Wiktionary project.

Look up any word in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

A different word every day from the OED.

The largest database of English-language phrases and sayings available on the Internet. This writer's resource uses a unique intelligent search function to locate phrases from a database of over 12,000 entries. Enter a word and it will generate a list of phrases and sayings related to that word - often including interesting selections that you may not have anticipated.

The dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries.

ReferenceDesk.org is The Internet's Best Reference Source! Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesaurii, Facts of the Day, and much more!

Resources for SCRABBLE® games, bar bets, and other trivial pursuits- a site dedicated to strange and unusual dictionaries, including collections of one-letter words, words of only vowels, and words of only consonants.

The Internet Picture Dictionary is a completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages.

Online Thesaurus from Dictionary.com

The InfoVisual is different from a traditional dictionary because the images replace the words. To learn by way of image with thematic pages, with consice and rigorous texts.

The Visual Thesaurus takes a unique, and remarkably beautiful, approach to presenting the results of a word lookup. Discover and learn from nearly 140,000 words, meanings and relationships.

Look up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

Our mission is to create the largest dictionary of modern language usage (the equivalent of 500 encyclopedias). The dictionary will soon consist of over 400 modern languages, and 10 ancestral languages, with some 30 million individual entries across languages (including expressions, technical terminologies, and words). The languages included are read or spoken by over 95 percent of the world's population.

Wikipedia, a free-content encyclopedia in many languages. In this English edition, started in January 2001, we are working on 368500 articles. Learn how to edit pages, experiment in the sandbox, and visit our Community Portal to find out how you can edit any article right now.

The Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT) is a set of word association norms showing the counts of word association as collected from subjects. This is not a developed semantic network, but empirical association data.

WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

Creates a customized glossary. Variation on a thesaurus-enter only word

Links to dozens of language dictionaries online.