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- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.)
- From: Bartleby.com (Dictionary). Includes color illustrations and audio pronunciation. Keyword: dictionary.
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- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable comprises over 18,000 entries
that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog words. Keyword: dictionary.
" with a tale to tell." People, literary characters, names, places, creatures, objects, terminology, and events
from folklore, folklife, legends, and mythology.
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- Cambridge Dictionaries Online
- A collection of Cambridge dictionaries, including, Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge Learner's Dictionary, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, and Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms. Keyword: dictionary.
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- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- Includes thesaurus and dictionary with audio pronunciation. Keyword: dictionary.
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- One Look
- A one stop site -- "Dictionary word count = 4,138,349 words in 751 online dictionaries now indexed." Keyword: dictionary.
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- Online Etymology Dictionary
- A useful and free online etymological dictionary.
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- Oxford English Dictionary
- The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English
language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and
pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of
words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language
sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
This Second Edition is updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries. Keyword: dictionary.
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- Roget's Thesauri
- From: Bartleby.com (Thesauri): Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995 & Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1922). Keyword: thesaurus.
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- Symbols.com
- Online encyclopedia of western signs and ideograms. Symbols.com contains more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. Keywords: symbols.
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- Webster's Third International Unabridged Dictionary
- "This electronic version comprises the text of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published in 1961, and subsequent updates which take account of current usage. It contains 450,000 vocabulary entries." Keyword: dictionary.
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- yourDictionary.com
- Dictionaries for approximately 260 languages, glosseries, translators, and specialty dictionaries. Keyword: foreign language dictionaries.
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