Dictionaries

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,: Description: 4th. Ed. unabridged.
American Heritage® Spanish Dictionary,: Description: 2nd. ed.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Description: the 1898 edition of Brewer's famous dictionary of phrases and words that have history wrapped in their meanings.
Business English Online: Description: useful both for non-native speakers and those who need multilingual business dictionaries, glossaries, form letters, and other business resources.
Diccionario de la lengua española: Description: This is the older 2nd edition but still an excellent Spanish dictionary.
Encarta World English Dictionary: Description: From Microsoft. Features human voice pronunciation and links to some areas of the Encarta Encyclopedia.
Eurodicautom: Description: a 12-language dictionary from the European Commission's Translation Service. This Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish dictionary contains five million entries and includes technical terms,abbreviations and acronyms.
Learning English: Description: Practice your English with the BBC. The BBC in London presents exercises based on shopping, news, and other real-life situations to help you learn English.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Tenth Edition: Description: and the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus. Easiest to use of the online dictionaries, the Collegiate also provides the date a term was first used. The Collegiate and the American Heritage dictionaries concentrate on American usage.
New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: Description: 3rd ed., by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, this work is based on an assumption that certain concepts, words, and works should be a part of every American's cultural knowledge. Exactly what should be included in this conception of literacy is controversial, but the dictionary can be a useful reference if you want to test your knowledge of important pieces of Western culture. There are 6,900 entries divided into 23 topical sections (e.g., The Bible Mythology and Folklore, Proverbs, Idioms World Literature, Philosophy, and Religion Literature in English, History, Politics, business, Sciences and Mathematics, Medicine and Health). The print edition is in the O'Toole Reference Room at E169.1 .H614 2002.
ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science: Description: compiled by Joan M. Reitz of Western Connecticut State University, this very useful dictionary will help you find your way around library catalogs and printed bibliographies.
Omniglot: a guide to writing systems: Description: An introduction to over 200 writing systems: alphabetic, syllabic,logographic, and alternative, with history and examples of each system and links to fonts.
Reference Desk: Description: Dictionaries and glossaries for science & technology from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sakhr: Description: Arabic dictionary
SYMBOLS.com: Description: Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms. Search over 2,500 symbols by graphic design or by word.
YourDictionary: Description: links to over 230 foreign language dictionaries and other word resources. The dictionaries include general dictionaries from major publishers (VOX for Spanish, Garazanti for Italian, Hachette for French, and the Sakhr for Arabic for example) and is especially good for finding technical dictionaries in foreign languages, such as The Beekeepers Italian-English dictionary. The site also has grammars in Chinese, French, Dutch, Cree, etc., commercially published or developed by university faculty around the world and links to Internet translation software.