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DICTIONARIES

• General Dictionaries
• Subject-Specific Dictionaries
• Thesauruses

General Dictionaries

• AllWords.com
  An English dictionary with a multi-lingual search feature.
  
  
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  
  
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
  
  
• Dictionary.com
  
  
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  
  
• Merriam-Webster OnLine
  
  
• MSN Learning & Research- Dictionary
  
  
• OneLook Dictionary Search
  
  
• Oxford English Dictionary (for on VIVA users only)
  
  
• RhymeZone -- rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
  
  
• Wordsmyth -- an educational dictionary-thesaurus
  
  
• Yahoo! Dictionaries
  
  
• Your Dictionary

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Subject Dictionaries

• Acronym Finder
  Look up 238,000+ acronyms/abbreviations & their definitions.
  
  
• American Sign Language Browser
  
  
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
  From the Getty Research Institute.
  
  
• A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
  American Sign Language
  
  
• BioTech's Life Science Dictionary
  
  
• Business Dictionaries
  
  
• ChemIDplus Advanced
  A chemical dictionary from the National Library of Medicine
  
  
• Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
  
  
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
  
  
• FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing
  
  
• Glossarist.com
  A comprehensive searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries.
  
  
• Glossary of Internet & Web Jargon
  
  
• HandSpeak: Visual Languages
  A sign language dictionary
  
  
• Law Dictionary
  
  
• Idiomsite.com
  Idioms and sayings.
  
  
• Ka-BOOM!
  A dictionary of comicbook words on historical principles.
  
  
• MedicineNet.com
  
  
• Modern Information Retrieval Glossary
  
  
• New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
  
  
• Philosophical Dictionary
  
  
• TechWeb: The Business Technology Network
  
  
• Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
  
  
• Webopedia
  O nline dictionary for computer and Internet terms.
  
  
• Whatis.Com
  Computer terms
  
  
• whonamedit.com
  Comprehensive dictionary of medical eponyms.

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Thesauruses

• Merriam-Webster Online
  
  
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
  
  
• Thesaurus.com

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This collection is maintained by Andrea McElhenny