Quick Reference: Dictionaries
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
http://www.bartleby.com/61/
The unabridged American Heritage® Dictionary, Third Edition, contains over 350,000 entries and meanings.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Choose from the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs or Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms.
The Ethnologue: Languages of the World (13th ed., 1997)
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/
By the Summer Institute of Linguistics. The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition
http://www.m-w.com/mw/
Published in 1994 by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. 160,000+ entries and 214,000+ definitions. Besides definition, a retrieved word is accompanied by pronunciation, usage, grammatical function, a brief etymology.
Oxford English Dictionary
Available to students and faculty only.
"The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day."
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html
From the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago.
Wordsymth - The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
An American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus.
Content editor: John Boyd, boydjd@appstate.edu, Electronic Resources Librarian