English Language

• The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
  4th ed., 2000.
• Cambridge Dictionary of American English
  Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• English Dictionaries & Thesauruses
  Search multiple sources from the Oxford Reference Online collection.
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online)
  The OED is the unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of English-language words, both present and past. In addition to offering access to the material contained in the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and 3-volume Additions Series, the online edition is updated quarterly with the results of the OED revision project. To learn more about researching the evolution of language, and how the OED is made, see the Oxford Dictionary Corpus.
  
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Foreign Languages

• Alta Vista's Babel Fish Translation Service
  Automated translation of sentences and phrases.
• Bilingual Dictionaries
  Search multiple sources from the Oxford Reference Online collection.
• French-English
  Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• Logos Multilanguage E-translation Portal
  Translate foreign terms (or conjugate verbs) from a number of foreign languages.
• OneLook
  Search hundreds of online dictionaries simultaneously.
• Spanish-English
  Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• yourDictionary.com
  An extensive collection of English, foreign language, and specialized dictionaries.
  
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Geography (Gazetteers)

• The Columbia Gazetteer of North America
  Comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features (Columbia University Press, 2000).
• Names & Places
  Search multiple sources from the Oxford Reference Online collection.
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
  The TGN includes names and other information about places on all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places. The emphasis in TGN is on places important for art and architecture.
  
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Specialized Subjects
See also Encyclopedias

• ArtLex Art Dictionary
  
Definitions for terms used in discussing visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images.
• Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms
  Contains around 7000 idioms current in British, American and Australian English (Cambridge Dictionaries Online).
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles
  Fourth Edition, Revised 1991 (U.S. Dept. of Labor).
• Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind
  
Submissions are subject to peer review by approved members of a board of qualified academics.
• Earthquake Image Glossary
  (United States Geological Survey)
• GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Dictionary
  (Association for Geographic Information and the University Of Edinburgh Department of Geography)
• Glossary of Literary Terms
  Gale® publishing.
• Grove Art
  Includes the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.
• Grove Music
  
A comprehensive, encyclopedic resource covering all aspects of music including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition) and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
• Online Etymology Dictionary
  Search the origin and history of words.
• Medical Dictionary
  U.S. National Library of Medicine (MEDLINEplus)
• New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
  3th ed., edited by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., et al. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
• The Phrase Finder
  
Meanings and origins of phrases, sayings, cliches and quotes.
• Stedman's Medical Dictionary
  Online version of the standard medical dictionary in print.
• Subject Dictionaries
  Search multiple sources from the Oxford Reference Online collection.
• Wex
  A collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia (Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School).
• whonamedit.com
  A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms (medical phenomena named for a person) with a biography of that person.
• Words of Art
  A glossary of theory and criticism for the visual arts (Okanagan University College, British Columbia)
• yourDictionary.com - Specialty Dictionaries
  
Links to specialized dictionaries in a wide variety of categories including:
• Concise Dictionary of Religion
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
  (1898)
• Webopedia
  (computer and Internet terms)

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Thesauri

• English Dictionaries & Thesauruses
  Search multiple sources from the Oxford Reference Online collection.
• Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
  3rd ed., 1995.
• Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
  1922.
  
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Quotations

• The Columbia World of Quotations
  1996.
• Familiar Quotations (Bartlett's)
  10th ed., 1919.
• Quotations
  Search multiple sources from the Oxford Reference Online collection.
• Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations
  1988.

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