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• Information Please - offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia.
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary - online English dictionary and thesaurus.
• OneLook Dictionaries - allows you to search for multiple definitions of a word from a variety of online dictionaries.

• allwords.com - English dictionary with multi-lingual search capability.
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
• AskOxford.com [read review] - contains a dictionary and thesaurus, as well as quotations, word of the day, games, and lexicography.
• Audio Webster Dictionary - features audio clips of words and quotes.
• Cambridge International Dictionaries - search separate dictionaries of English, phrasal verbs, or idioms.
• Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary (and Guru)
• Century Dictionary Online - American dictionary with fulltext search page images representing the definitions, atlas, and cyclopedia from the original text.
• Dictionary of American Regional English - specializes in regional words and phrases.
• Dictionary.com - featuring a variety of tools including thesauri, translator, and writing resources.
• Encarta World English Dictionary - features audio clips of words pronounced.
• Exploding Dictionary, The - displays definitions with each individual word in the definition hyperlinked to its definition.
• FreeDictionary.org - simultaneously and efficiently searches several dictionaries for word definitions.
• Lexical FreeNet - this program allows you to search for rhymes and relationships between words and concepts that might never have occurred to you.
• Macquarie Dictionary@
• Middle English Compendium
• Online Rhyming Dictionary - rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, spelling checker, and word finding tool.
• Vocabulary of Alliteration - a dictionary of alliterative words, for use in writing poems, songs, and studying phonetic and phonemic syllable divisions in English.
• Voycabulary - lets you look up words in online dictionaries and thesauri by entering a URL or paragraph and clicking on the words. Supports many languages and translations.
• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition - an older dictionary online, but with all the common words and a rich source of definitions of obsolete words.
• Word Assault - searches various dictionaries for multiple words at a time.
• WordNet - online dictionary that finds words that mean the same, are more general, or more specific.
• Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus - American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus and other lexical resources.
• WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary - find rhymes online.

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