| All Free Dictionaries project | A very large number of online and downloadable free dictionaries. |
| AllWords.com | Specify a word in English, Dutch, French, Italian or Spanish, and translate it simultaneously into Dutch, French, English, Italian and Spanish. Also: links for creative writing, crosword puzzles, writing tools ,thesauri, slang, quotations, translation services, etc. |
| Cambridge Dictionaries Online | Free online dictionaries: English, American English, Idioms, French-English-French, Spanish-English-Spanish, etc. |
| croDict.com | Online Croation to/from German dictionary. |
| Etymology Dictionary | Online Etymology Dictionary. Etymologies are explanations of what words meant and how they sounded hundreds of years ago. |
| Eurodict | Online English-Bulgarian, German-Bulgarian, Italian-Bulgarian, Spanish-Bulgarian, French-Bulgarian, Greek-Bulgarian, Turkish-Bulgarian, Turkish-English, Turkish-German, Turkish-French and Bulgarian Encyclopedic Dictionary. |
| Foreignword.com | Online dictionaries for a multitude of languages, and free translation tools. |
| Langservices | Free online Cambridge dictionaries, Merriam-Websters Dictionary and Merriam-Websters Thesaurus. Note: scroll to bottom of Langservices.com home page to reach the dictionary input form. |
| LEO | Excellent online dictionary for German-English-German (University of Munich). |
| OneLook | Meta-dictionary. Enter any word in any language. OneLook will give you the results of a large number of online resources ordered by dictionary, language and dictionary-type (such as medicine, computing). |
| Open Dictionary | A collaborative project to produce a freely accessible multilingual dictionary in every language, with meanings, etymologies and pronunciations. |
| RealDictionary.com | Free online dictionaries for English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish. Also: US Cities, Zip codes, counties. |
| The Free Dictionary | Free online dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. |
| TravLang | A
large number of online dictionaries: German, Dutch, French, Spanish,
Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Latin, Finnish, Norwegian,
Frisian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Esperanto, Turkish. Furthermore: Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Korean, Latvian, Farsi, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Yiddish. |
| TU-Chemnitz | Excellent free online English-German dictionary. Translation from English to German and vice versa. Also: explanations, synonyms, proverbs, aphorisms, quotations. |
| Wiktionary | Free multi-lingual online dictionary. |
| WordReference.com | Online dictionaries: English to/from Spanish, French, Italian; also: English and Spanish definitions, Portuguese to/from Spanish. |
| YourDictionary.com | English -> French English -> Spanish English -> German English -> Italian English -> Portuguese French -> English Spanish -> English German -> English Italian -> English Portuguese -> English Also: Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, courses, glossaries, abbreviations, grammar guides, etc. |
| ZebraWords.com | Online meta-dictionary and thesaurus for the english language. Also: online translation of words from and to a large number of other languages. |
| Free downloadable Dictionaries | |
| Koral dictionaries | Free dictionaries (Windows) for download: English-Bulgarian-English German-Bulgarian-German Spanish-Bulgarian-Spanish Italian-Bulgarian-Italian French-Bulgarian-French English-Turkish-English German-Turkish-German French-Turkish-French. More (non-free): more extended dictionaries, talking dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. |
| ebswift.com | Freeware WordNet based dictionaries for PC, Pocket PC, Smartphone, as well as an online dictionary. Features include wildcard, anagram, regular expression, scrabble and "sounds like". Other features include full word hyperlinking, extensive word relations, and the ability to restrict searches to scrabble allowed words (scrabble allowed words is a list of over 209,000 words). |
| Free English online dictionaries | |
| Dictionary.com | Free online English dictionary and meta search engine. |
| FindTheWord.info | A search engine for English words. All searches are made in a dictionary containing more than 460,000 English words. Also: partial words, anagrams, palindromes, words in word, word bridge, and more. |
| Merriam-Webster OnLine | Free online English thesaurus, dictionary and unabridged dictionary. |
| Thesaurus.com | Free online English thesaurus. |
| wordthrill.com | Free searchable English dictionary with over 200,000 word definitions and list of their synonyms. |
| Free Specialized online Dictionaries | |
| ASL Browser | Extensive American Sign Language dictionary. For each letter, word or phrase it will play a short movie showing you how it is signed. |
| ASL PRO.com | American sign language dictionary. For each word in the dictionary a short movie is available. |
| Bloomberg Financial Glossary | Free business dictionary. More than 6,000 entries with 15,000 links |
| Construction Glossary | Construction Glossary from the "Home Building Manual". |
| Dictionary of Algorithms and Datastructures | Specialized free computing dictionary of algorithms, data structures, etc. |
| Dictionary of Automotive Terms | 15,000 words and expressions for automobiles, bicycles, motorcycles, engines, and boats. Free. |
| Esaurus.org | English-Chinese medical dictionary. |
| FiDict.com | Online financial dictionary, containing over 5000 terms. Additionally, FiDict.com is able to translate between English and Dutch. |
| Free online dictionary of Computing | Free general dictionary of computing terms (hardware, software, theory, etc.). |
| Genealogy Glossary | When tracing an ancestry it is common to encounter records filled with obsolete, archaic, or legal terms that can be difficult to interpret. This glossary can help. Free. |
| InvestorWords.com | Free financial glossary with over 6,000 definitions and 20,000 links. |
| Noslang.com | Internet Slang Dictionary and Translator. |
| Soap Making Dictionary | A collection of terms, definitions and acronyms related to the art of soap making. |
| Sports Glossaries | Free online dictionaries on Archery, Auto Racing, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Bobsledding, Bowling,etc. |
| Stedmans Medical Dictionaries | Free online medical dictionaries. |
| UK Dictionary of Slang | Free. English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom. |
| Non-free online dictionaries | |
| Dorlands | Online illustrated medical dictionary for healthcare professionals. |
| Oxford English Dictionary | Famous and respected dictionary, for professionals. US$550 subscription fee per year. |
| Free Thesauri | |
| Thesaurus.com | Free online English thesaurus. |
| WordWeb | Free and non-free thesauri for which can be used in combination with any Windows program. |
| Mobysaurus | Free English thesaurus and dictionary powered by Moby Thesaurus II, Roget's Thesaurus, Collaborative International Dictionary of English, and WordNet. |
| Thesauri by Language | Thesauri on the Web, classified by language. |
| Thesauri by Subject | Thesauri on the Web, classified by subject. |
| Free Translation tools | |
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| Babelfish | Automatically translates short texts and entire Web pages from one laguage to another. Currently supported translations: English to Chinese, English to French, English to German, English to Italian, English to Japanese, English to Korean, English to Portuguese, English to Spanish, Chinese to English, French to English, French to German, German to English, German to French, Italian to English, Japanese to English, Korean to English, Portuguese to English, Russian to English, Spanish to English. |
| FreeTranslation.com | Free automatic translation to/from English, Portuguese, Chinese, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Italian, etc. |
| Google translate | Google's free automatic language translation service instantly translates text and web pages. This translator supports a multitude of languages. |
| WoTran.com | "World Of Translators". Free automatic online text translation for English, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and French. |
| Free Spellcheckers | |
| Spellcheck.net | Free online spellchecker. Just copy/paste your text into the form (up to 5000 characters) and press 'spellcheck text'. |
| Learn languages for free | |
| EasyPortuguese | Portuguese lessons, useful phrases, audio samples, vocabulary, alphabeth, etc. |
| Interlex | A free Windows application that can help you learn vocabulary in a foreign language. The program is built around a simple idea: first you compile a list of words and phrases, then you test yourself until you have learnt them. |
| Learn a Language on YouTube | A selection of YouTube videos to help you learn a foreign language, especially if you are at the beginning stages. |
| Learn Mandarin Chinese | 25 free online Mandarin Chinese lessons. |
| UsingEnglish.com | Provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources such as: a grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, links and information. |
| Various Language resources | |
| Acronym Finder | Free. Comprehensive database of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. 253,000+ definitions. An acronym is a pronounceable word formed from each of the first letters of a descriptive phrase. An acronym is actually a type of abbreviation. |
| World Oral Literature Project | Database of around 3000 endangered and extinct languages. |
| Anagrams | Free. Returns a list of anagrams for any word you type in. An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. For exampe, Elvis to Lives. |
| Free Language Helpdesk | Free helpdesk for language related matters by Langservices.com. |
| NearRhyme.com | Find near rhymes and alliterations. |
| Omniglot | Writing systems and languages of the world. |
| RhymeZone | Find rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, definitions, related words, similar sounding words, homophones; match consonants and letters; check spelling, etc. |
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