List of online dictionaries

An online dictionary is a dictionary that 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.

Selected online English dictionaries using established content [edit]

• Oxford Dictionaries Online Oxford Dictionary of English; New Oxford American Dictionary; Oxford Thesaurus of English; Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
• Collins Online Dictionary Collins Unabridged English Dictionary; Collins Unabridged Thesaurus; Collins Webster's American English Dictionary
• 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.
• Longman Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
• Macmillan Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
• Merriam-Webster OnLine Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• Oxford University Press Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Other Examples [edit]

Multilingual

• 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 Russianm, 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 Wikipedia.
• Pictual (website): free visual dictionary, English-German-French-Spanish.
• 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.
• Glosbe: free mulitilingual collaborative and open dictionary with translation memory search
• bab.la: free multilingual collaborative dictionary for 22 languages and providing 35 language combinations.
• PONS, a free multilingual dictionary that also has an option for translating from German into the fictional Elvish language.

Bilingual

• WWWJDIC Japanese–English
• zhongbaotong.com Chinese-Bulgarian and Bulgarian-Chinese online free dictionary.
• bkrs.info Russian-Chinese and Chinese-Russian collaborative and open dictionary.
• Malay Chinese Dictionary
• Spanish-Russian and Russian-Spanish dictionary - Diccionario.ru
• Spanish-English online dictionary - DicLib.com
• Honyaku Star - Japanese-English dictionary

English language

• Avvo Legal Dictionary Free online legal dictionary written in layman's' terms. Features legal cartoons for select terms.
• 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).
• Smart Define Word definitions and thesaurus.
• Urban Dictionary Dictionary of slang.
• WordNet, a word database.
• Wordnik
• Wordweb Free and premium online English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
• WordDetail Word definitions and a thesaurus reference resource.
• YourDictionary On-line dictionary and thesaurus.

Other specific languages

• Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian
• Dictionary of the Scots Language
• Susning.nu Free Swedish online dictionary, opened 2001, now defunct
• Private Sözlük Turkish collaborative dictionary
• Ekşi Sözlük Turkish collaborative dictionary
• Plattmakers Low Saxon online dictionary
• Van Dale Dictionary of the Dutch language
• Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal Dictionary of the Dutch language (free registration required)

See also [edit]

• Electronic dictionary
• Thesaurus
• List of online encyclopedias

External links [edit]

• QwickUp Not a dictionary but providing access to most of popular online dictionaries simultaneously.
• Ourway English/Persian dicionary Ourway Farsi/English dictionary
• Dictionaries at the Open Directory Project
• Dictionary of phrasal verbs