Dictionaries : English
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
No longer available at bartleby.com.
The fourth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary offers more than 90,000 entries, 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes. Browseable and searchable by entry term, full text, definition, etymology, and more.
- ASL Browser
American Sign Language. Using Quicktime movie software, Michigan State University has created a dictionary of thousands of ASL signs. To see an ASL sign demonstrated, choose the sign you want from a list of nearly 30 such lists, then watch the 100K movie.
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
Full-text of the 2nd ed. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean.
[Resource no longer available]
- Oxford Reference Online
This resource brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries
and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
Dictionaries : Foreign Language
- Babel Fish Translator
Translate a block of text (up to 150 words), or translate a web page into one of 19 different languages. Use this to get the essential meaning of a paragraph or a web page.
- freedict.com
Links to 16 foreign language-English dictionaries, including Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.
- German Reference Database (Xipolis)
[Resource no longer available]
- YourDictionary.com
A compendium of language, specialty, multilingual, translation, and other dictionaries, YourDictionary.com provides links to more than 1800 dictionaries in 250 languages. You can also search thesauri, grammars, acronyms, synonyms and more using this language portal.
Grammar and Punctuation Guides
- Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
This popular book is an indispensable and entertaining guide for writers, proofreaders, editors, managers, clerical staff, teachers, and students. Use this site to find the answers to your questions concerning proper English grammar and punctuation.
Thesauri
- Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
The online version of Roget's II contains 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format. Features of the thesaurus include succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index, which leads you to list of antonyms for the word you select.
- Visual Thesaurus
The Visual Thesaurus takes a unique,
and remarkably beautiful, approach to
presenting the results of a word lookup.
Type in a word, click "go," and you're
rewarded with a colorful, interactive
map of the meaning of your word.
Page Coordinator: Vicki Glasgow blibvlg@tc.umn.edu
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