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Dictionaries and Word Sources

The links on this page are to individual dictionary resources as well as to extensive lists of dictionaries of all kinds. If you do not find what you want or what you need, please contact the King Library Information Services Desk.

General

• Academic Info - Online Dictionaries
• Credo Reference Dictionaries
• Credo Reference Language
• Dictionary.com
• OneLook Dictionaries - 56 Dictionaries in One
• Yahoo - Dictionaries
• Index - List of Dictionaries
• Glossary of Literary Terms (GaleGroup)
• Literary & Rhetorical Terms (Univ Victoria Writer's Guide)

English Language Dictionaries

• Merriam Webster Dictionary

Language / Translation Dictionaries

• Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
• The EthnoLogue - Languages of the World
• French-English Dictionary (ARTFUL Project)
• Credo Reference Bilinguals

American / British Dictionaries

• BritSpeak: British - American - English Dictionary

Thesauri

• The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)

Acronym & Abbreviations

• The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server

Rhyming Dictionaries

• Rhyming Dictionary
• Semantic Rhyming Dictionary

Subject

• Frontiers in Bioscience Dictionary

Juvenile

• Little Explorers Picture Dictionary with Links

American Sign Language

• American Sign Language Dictionary
• American Sign Language Browser (includes video clips demonstrating thousands of ASL signs)