List of online dictionaries

An online dictionary is a glossary, while others offer search features, reverse lookups, and additional language tools and content such as verb conjugations, grammar references, and discussion forums.

1 Selected online English dictionaries
- 1.1 Advanced learner dictionaries
2 Other examples
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Selected online English dictionaries

The following is a concise list of online English dictionaries whose definitions are based upon well-established content.

Collins Online Dictionary Collins Unabridged English Dictionary; Collins Unabridged Thesaurus; Collins Webster's American English Dictionary
Dictionary.com Dictionary.com Unabridged v. 1.1 and American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Ed.
Merriam-Webster OnLine Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Oxford Dictionaries Online Oxford Dictionary of English; New Oxford American Dictionary; Oxford Thesaurus of English; Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus

Advanced learner dictionaries

Oxford University Press Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Longman Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Cambridge Dictionaries Online Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Macmillan Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners

Other examples

Multilingual

dictindustry: free technical and business multilingual online dictionary for twenty languages (German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, and more) incl. example sentences and pictures
Wiktionary: a collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation
LEO (website): free multilingual collaborative dictionary for German
Ultralingua: free and premium multilingual dictionary
Multitran, a multilingual Internet-based dictionary centered on Russian, and provides 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 WorldHeritage.
dict.cc, a free user-run multilingual dictionary centered around English and German, with the capacity to translate to Spanish, French, Icelandic, Esperanto, Albanian, Italian and many more.
WWWJDIC Japanese–English

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)
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
Ekşi Sözlük Turkish collaborative dictionary
Plattmakers Low Saxon online dictionary
Svenska Akademiens ordbok
Van Dale Dictionary of the Dutch language
Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal Dictionary of the Dutch language (free registration required)
Yeminlisozluk Turkish translators' dictionary

References

External links

Dictionaries at DMOZ

Lexicography

Types of reference works	Dictionary Glossary Lexicon Thesaurus

Types of dictionaries	Bilingual Biographical Conceptual Defining Electronic Encyclopedic Language for specific purposes dictionary Machine-readable Maximizing Medical Minimizing Monolingual learner's Multi-field Phonetic Picture Reverse Rhyming Rime Single-field Specialized Sub-field Visual

Lexicographic projects	Lexigraf WordNet

Other	List of lexicographers List of online dictionaries

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List of online dictionaries