Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri & Acronyms

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General Dictionaries General Dictionaries English Language Non-English Languages Special Dictionaries	Encyclopedias General Encyclopedias Special Encyclopedias Thesauri Acronyms

See also Encyclopedias and Other Reference Tools - the gateway to UW-W subscription dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes and other reference tools.

General

Martindale's "The Reference Desk" - (Jim Martindale) - this gateway site links to hundreds of dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference works
Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection
Contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving wide access to a comprehensive information resource.
www.1000dictionaries.com: An Internet Directory - links to over 3,500 dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias, etc.
Xrefer - Simultaneously search many reference sources, including The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms, Bloomsbury Thesaurus and Penguin Rhyming Dictionary. Many search all sources at once, or limit by subject area.

Information Please - Includes an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and almanacs
Lexicool - Directory of over 1000 bilingual and multilingual translation dictionaries and glossaries. Choice of English, French, Italian or Spanish interface.
OneLook Dictionaries - Searches over 740 different online dictionaries

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 - Search by entry word. 90,000 entries
ARTFL Project: 1913 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Search by headword. 109,562 entries
AskOxford - free online dictionary resource includes access to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, a quotations dictionary, a first names dictionary and more.
Free Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
Martindale's Language & Translation Center: English - (Jim Martindale) - this gateway site links to hundreds of non-English dictionaries
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - Free access a dictionary (edition not specified)
Online Etymology Dictionary - (Douglas Harper)
Oxford English Dictionary
Contains the complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series draft material from the current OED project, representing the latest progress towards a completely revised and updated Third Edition.
Word Central's Student Dictionary - (Merriam-Webster)

Foreign Language Resources - UW-Whitewater Andersen Library selected resources
Martindale's Language & Translation Center - (Jim Martindale) - this gateway site links to hundreds of dictionaries in dozens of languages
Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection
There are several bilingual dictionaries in this collection from Oxford University Press, including English-Spanish, Spanish-English, French-English, English-French, German-English, English-German, Italian-English, and English-Italian.
Your Dictionary.com

American Sign Language Browser - (Michigan State University) - Look up video of thousands of signs.
American Sign Language Dictionary
A Dictionary of Units - (Frank Tapson) - Provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world, along with the conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the SI.
Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
OneLook Dictionaries: Dictionary and Glossary List - over 740 special subject dictionaries including: Arts & Humanities, Business, Computer/Internet, Medical, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Sports, Technology and Slang
Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (ODLIS)
Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection
Includes many subject dictionaries from Oxford University Press in the fields of art, biology, chemistry, computing, business, foreign language, history, law, physics and more, as well as map and has visual dictionaries
The Very Best of British - Over 1,000 entries that compare British to American English words.
Visual Dictionary Online - (Merriam-Webster)

Encyclopedia.com - (eLibrary) - enhanced 7th edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Includes Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year and thousands of links to other Web sites selected by Britannica editors
Encyclopedia Britannica - (PageWise) - 11 edition, 1911. This browseable encyclopedia is still under construction.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
How Stuff Works
Information Please - Includes an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and almanacs

Associations Unlimited
EBSCO Animals
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd Edition & New Grove Dictionary of Opera
Symbols.com - (HME Media, Stockholm Sweden) - Online version of Carl G. Liungman's book Thought Signs: The Semiotics of Symbols---Western Non-pictorial Ideograms

ARTFL Project: ROGET's Thesaurus Search Form - Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 version 1.02 (supplemented: July 1991). Two search options
Merriam-Webster OnLine Thesaurus - Free access a thesaurus (edition not specified)
Roget's Thesaurus - This hypertext version offers Boolean search options. 1043 terms.
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus - This version offers 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references. Searchable and browseable. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995; New York: Bartleby.com, 2000
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (3rd ed.) - This version offers 260,000 synonyms and cross-references. Houghton Mifflin, 1995; Yahoo, 2004

Last Revised: MS - 1/16/2008