D+-+Dictionaries+Online

AskOxford [|www.askoxford.com] This Web site includes such features as Ask the Experts, Better Writing, World of Words, Word of the day, Quote of the Day, and much more.

A Basic Dictionary of ASL (American Sign Language) Terms [|www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html] This site offers both animated and text definitions. The test definitions also include letter or number sign images to aid in visualizing the sign.

Cambridge Dictionaries Online [|www.dictionary.cambridge.org] This online dictionary ranges from intermediate to proficiency level; it is clear, up-to-date, and easy to use.

Dictionaries by Language [] This Web site includes everything from American Sign Language to Yiddish!

Dictionary.com [|http://dictionary.reference.com] This site includes such features as Bookstore, Fun and Games, Language Resources, Thesurus.com Tools, Translation, and Word of the Day.

A Dictionary of Slang [|www.peevish.u-net.com/slang/] This is an online dictionary of slang, with new slang added every month!

Encarta [] This useful Web site encourages learning and respects the role of parents in their children’s education.

Glossaries by Languages [|www.lai.com/glossaries.html] This is an extremely comprehensive site, including languages from Arabic to Gaelic to Welsh.

iLoveLanguages [|www.ilovelanguages.com] This Web site is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2,000 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed.

iTools [|www.itools.com/lang/] Via this site, one can learn the meaning of any word, its correct spelling, how to pronounce it, and where it originated.

Medline Plus [|www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html] This Web site is a gold mine of good health information from the world’s largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.

Merriam-Webster Online [|www.m-w.com] This online source includes Merriam-Webster’s Real Time Words, which consists of unedited entries randomly selected from millions of searches on Merriam-Webster Online that make the Top Ten List of the most frequently looked-up words.

OneLook [|www.onelook.com] This Web site offers 6,002,182 words in 966 dictionaries, indexed!

Strange and Unusual Dictionaries [|www.blueray.com/dictionary/] This site offers unusual dictionaries, such as //The White Queens Dictionary of One-Letter Words//, //Dictionary of All-Consonant Words//, and //Dictionary of All-Vowel Words//.

Thesauri [] A very comprehensive source, beginning with “Access to Asian Vegetables Thesaurus!”

Thesauri [] This site is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory on the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

Wikipedia [] This Web site offers more than 300,000 portals of information!

Wordsmyth [|www.wordsmyth.net] This online source provides useful, accessible reference resources and is made expressly for elementary school-aged children.

Word2Word.com [|www.word2word.com/dictionary.html] This site provides links in the hope of developing a better understanding of others through the use of language; it offers numerous online dictionaries.

Your Dictionary.com [|www.yourdictionary.com] This Web site uses the database of the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (AHD), published by Houghton-Mifflin Company, as well as Roget’s Thesaurus.

Your Free Language Wizard [|www.foreignword.com] This online source provides access to more than 200 online dictionary for 70 languages.