Reference: Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
Abbreviations.com
A guide to acronyms and abbreviations in use on the web.
bab.la language portal
bab.la is an interactive language portal offering free collaborative dictionaries (English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Turkish, Russian and Portuguese), language quizzes and a language forum. Users can interact with one another and share their knowledge and experience of learning languages.
BUBL Link Catalogue of Internet Resources: Generalities
BUBL’s comprehensive collection of web resources includes links to dictionaries and encyclopedias in its Generalities section.
CREDOreference
Encyclopedia of Life
Aims to provide (through collaboration and expert editing) a portal to authenticated information on every known as well as newly discovered species on Earth.
Famous Quotes & Authors
Search for or browse through the collection of 25,000 quotes from over 6,700 famous authors.
FreeDict.Com
An online multi-language dictionary.
Free Books
A site linking to free e-books available for downloading.
Google definition tool
To find a web definition of a word, try the DEFINE operator in Google. Type define: followed by your word or phrase. E.g. define:podcast or define:marketing strategy.
OneLook Reverse Dictionary
OneLook's reverse dictionary allows you to enter a word, phrase, sentence or even a question to describe a concept. It will then retrieve a list of words and phrases related to that concept.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Online access to 4 OUP language dictionaries (French, German, Italian and Spanish).
Oxford Reference Online
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Comprehensive, free reference work devoted to the academic discipline of philosophy.
Thesaurus.com
Online version of Roget's New Millennium Thesaurus.(Note American spellings.)
UK Web Archive
A service collecting and archiving websites which no longer exist, provided by the British Library in partnership with the National Library of Wales, JISC and The Wellcome Library.
Urban Dictionary
A useful dictionary for slang, neologisms and catchphrases.
Visual Dictionary Online
Compiled by Merriam-Webster and QA International, it combines dictionary definitions for over 20,000 terms with more than 6,000 full colour illustrations.
Visuwords Online Graphical Dictionary
Word definitions and word associations are displayed in diagrammatic form, similar to a mind map or neural net.
Who's Who and Who Was Who
Who's Who contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. Approximately one thousand new entries are added every year. Who Was Who contains over 100,000 entries from the archives of Who's Who dating back to 1898.
WordReference.com
A collection of free online translation dictionaries (French, Spanish, Italian and Portugese). Additional features include language forums for getting advice from native speakers, a customisable toolbar and plug-ins for Firefox users.
Yahoo Dictionaries
Lists free dictionaries.
Your Dictionary
English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, plus specialist subjects
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