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Online Dictionary

Looking for a correct spelling of a word, it's part of speech, how to pronounce it, or how to say it in another language?  If so, please try these online dictionaries.  

Most of these online dictionaries also have a thesaurus for you to use.
Web Links:
  1. American Heritage Dictionary American Heritage Dictionary
    (90,000 entries, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations.)
  2. Cambridge Dictionaries Online Cambridge Dictionaries Online
  3. Dictionary.com Dictionary.com
    (Loaded! Uses several different types of dictionaries as a part of its service to you)
  4. Dictionary.net Dictionary.net
    (Offers a search which returns word, and phrase definitions from a variety of english dictionary resources)
  5. Free Dictionary, The Free Dictionary, The
    (English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!) About...
  6. Merriam-Webster Online Merriam-Webster Online
    (The grand daddy of dictionaries! It's loaded!)
  7. One Look Dictionary Search One Look Dictionary Search
    (More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine)
  8. Webster's Online Dictionary Webster's Online Dictionary
    (Webster’s classic 1913 unabridged dictionary along with updated definitions, thousands of images, quotes, trade names, references, timelines and translations)
  9. Word Central Word Central
    (Contains a dictionary, thesauras and rhyming dictionary)
  10. WordReference.com WordReference.com
    (Is the top online dictionary for its language pairs of English-Spanish, English-French, English-Italian, Spanish-French, and Spanish-Portuguese)
  11. Your Dictionary.com Your Dictionary.com
    (Provides you with more than 2500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages)
Author: Mark Baker
Last modified: 11/03/2012 5:04 PM (CST)