An online dictionary is a dictionary which 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. For a more complete list of 42 online dictionaries see the Category: Online dictionaries below.
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Selected online English dictionaries using established content
- AskOxford Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English
- 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.
- Google Google Dictionary
- Longman Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
- Merriam-Webster OnLine Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- MSN Encarta Encarta World English Dictionary
- Oxford University Press Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- Wiktionary A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation + List of online dictionaries
Other Examples
- Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian
- Dictionary of the Scots Language
- Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- LEO (website) Free multilingual collaborative dictionary for German.
- Lithuanian dictionaries
- Logos Dictionary Free online with additional premium content.
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- Private Sözlük Turkish collaborative dictionary
- Pseudodictionary Dictionary of user submitted made-up words (humour).
- Reference.com Word and language tool portal.
- Susning.nu Free Swedish online dictionary
- Ultralingua Free and premium multilingual dictionary.
- Urban Dictionary Dictionary of slang.
- WWWJDIC Japanese-English
- Ekşi Sözlük Turkish collaborative dictionary
- Wordweb Free and premium online English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
See also
- Bilingual dictionary
- Electronic dictionary
- Encyclopedic dictionary
- List of online encyclopedias
- Medical dictionary
- Picture dictionary
- Rhyming dictionary
- Thesaurus
- Translation dictionary
- Visual dictionary
External links
- Elvovio Elovivo. A multilingual user generated dictionary (beta)
- Interglot
- Wiktionary A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation + List of online dictionaries
- Urban Dictionary A user collaborated urban slang word dictionary
- Irish Dictionary A collaborative dictionary of the Irish language
- Idioms Dictionary A collaborative dictionary of idioms
- Picture That Dictionary Dictionary to help people with dyslexia, poor readers, and people learning English as a second language
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