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DICTIONARIES
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Some General Dictionary Sites on the Web

Library Spot.Com:   Dictionary Platter
http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/   Menu has hyperlinks to popular English dictionaries and some specialized dictionaries.

Your Dictionary.Com
Your Dictionary home page  Dictionary search engine and additional resources
Dictionary search engines, links   Thesauri with synonyms, glossaries, phrase dictionaries, plus quotations, arcronyms, pronunciation and rhymes, and multi-lingual glossaries.

Yahoo Dictionary Homepage, Links
http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/

Dictionaries and Glossaries, by Subject

Your Dictionary.Com - Specialty Dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/specialty.html

Dietz - Over 2000 Glossary Links
http://frankdietz.com/glossary.htm#Monolingual%20English%20Glossaries:

List of Glossaries - Wikipedia.Org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glossaries

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Multi-dictionary Engine:

"OneLook Dictionary" searches over 800 dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com/
Type in a word; obtain and compare definitions from many dictionaries on the web.


Major Dictionaries & Thesauri

American Heritage Dictionary
http://www.bartleby.com/61/   Excellent, over 90,000 entries

Webster's Dictionary, search engine
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm  

Roget's Thesaurus 911:   Find synonyms for ______.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html    Search Engine

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Abbreviations.Com
http://www.abbreviations.com/  Browse for Acronyms and Abbreviations, by Category .  Scroll past the ads.

Internet Acronym Server - Simaril
http://acronyms.silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms  Enter Initials You Need Defined, into Abbreviations Search Engine

Acronym Attic
http://www.acronymattic.com/  Over 3 Million Acronyms & Abbreviations

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Quotations, Proverbs,  Idioms, Cliches

Bartleby.Com
http://www.bartleby.com/
Use drop down menu to use quotation reference sources in Bartleby.

Yahoo.Com Extensive Quotes Page
http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Quotations/

Famous Quotes
http://www.brainyquote.com/   Quotes, arranged by author and topic

Quotations Archive
http://www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtml

Wikipedia Quotes and Proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page

Proverbs from Many Countries
http://creativeproverbs.com/cp-index.htm  -   Search box

Quotation Search Portals
http://www.quotesandsayings.com/finquoteframes.htm  

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Idioms, Cliches

American Idioms Defined
http://www.eslcafe.com/idioms/id-mngs.html
http://www.pride-unlimited.com/probono/idioms1.html

Cliche Web - Steve Lautenschlager Cliche Collection
http://www.cambiaresearch.com/clicheweb/  Collection of cliches-- bits of knowledge and wisdom in 7 second "sound bites"


Word Origins (Etymology)

Etymonline.Com - On-line etymology dictionary - Word origins
http://www.etymonline.com/

Etymology (Word origin) links
http://dmoz.org/Reference/Dictionaries/Etymology/  DMOZ - Open Directory Project

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Bi-lingual Dictionaries

By language, A-Z
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html

English-Spanish-English Dictionaries     Links
http://www.spanishdict.com/  or
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=welcome

English-Russian-English Dictionaries    Links
http://dictionary.reverso.net/russian-english/

Tagalog-English On-Line Dictionary    Links
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/on_site_dictionary.htm
http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/Tagalog/default.htm
Information on languages in the Philippines

English-Hindi & Hindi-English Dictionary links    Links
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/indoiran.html#hindi

Bahasa Indonesian-English Dictionary   Links  (Scroll down to Indonesian languages!)
Indonesian to English, English to Indonesian Dictionary

English-Vietnamese Dictionary  Links
http://vdict.com/  VDict.Com

English-Chinese & Chinese-English Dictionaries
Chinese Dictionary and links  (Scroll down.)
More Links Yahoo.Com

English-Japanese & Japanese-English Dictionary links
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/altaic.html
http://dmoz.org/Reference/Dictionaries/World_Languages/J/Japanese/

English-Korean & Korean-English Dictionary links
http://translation.babylon.com/Korean/

Glossaries & Dictionaries, by Language (some Bi-Lingual)

Glossaries & Dictionaries, by Language (some Bi-Lingual)
http://www.lai.com/lai/glossaries.html

Multi-lingual Dictionaries

Logos multi-lingual dictionary, over 30 languages-- Excellent!
http://www.logos.it/  Enter a word.  Then press "View Translations" button.

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Translations, Free

Babel "Fish" Translator - from Altavista.Com
http://world.altavista.com/  Translate text or a web page.

Babylon Translation - "Translation @ a Click"
http://translation.babylon.com/

Verb Conjugator

Logos Conjugator - Verbs
http://www.logosconjugator.org/

Hello World.Com - Free English Verb Trainer - 600+ Verbs
http://www.helloworld.com.es/english/downloads/englishvm.htm  Includes link to Spanish verb conjugations

Verbix.Com - Verb Conjugations, Afrikaans to Welsh
http://www.verbix.com/languages/

Grammars of the World

Index to Grammars of the World
http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html  Your Dictionar.Com - Grammar courses by language, A-Z

Asian and Non-European Fonts

Font shareware - Freelang.Net
http://www.freelang.net/fonts/index.html

Vista Wide - Free Fonts of World Languages and Cultures
http://www.vistawide.com/languages/foreign_language_fonts.htm

Search Engines of Other Countries

"Foreign" Versions of Major Internet Search Engines: Links
http://www.infinisource.com/search-engines.html#foreign

Search Engine Colossus-- Describes search engines of over 200 countries, with links
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/

To Search Engines in English

Language Identifiers / Endangered Languages

Language Identifiers
Text Cat Language Finder

Endangered Languages
http://www.yourdictionary.com/elr/index.html  Excellent, informative articles

Also, see History of English Language  You will be taken to another web page.

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