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		Attention This section is devoted to English-to-English resources. For resources combining English with other languages, see the multilingual section and the page devoted to the other language!
		Metadictionaries				See the multilingual section.
		Online dictionaries				langenberg.com Search engine for many (also odd) dictionaries. Cambridge's Advanced Learners Dictionary Houghton Mifflin's American Heritage® Dictionary 4th ed 2000 Definitions, origins, and compared synonyms. YourDictionary With usage examples. WordNet from Princeton University WWWebster Dictionary Get definitions and synonyms one by one. Pronunciation recordings. Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus Compact Oxford English Dictionary Wordsmyth (50000 headwords) Get definitions and synonyms on a single page. Tip of my tongue "Find that word that you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember" by entering some of its letters, its meaning, etc. Incredibly fast. Etymological (word origins) Etymonline Technical English. The Literary Dictionary An assortment of words that first made an appearance in books, plays, poems, comic strips and mythology with their origin. Migration Glossary First names Oxford Concise Dictionary of First Names Quotations Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Dialects Jeremy's American<->British online dictionary (ok) Fine Dictionary of Indian English http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dgl3djb/ukus.html http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/P1/p1paps.html BritSpeak: British - American English Dictionary Dictionary of American Regional English British National Corpus - You can search for words or expressions and get sample sentences in English!
		Translation engines				NB: This section focuses on the dialects of English. ICT4L See the Just for Fun section for links to online dialectizers.
		Wordlists				A Shakespeare Glossary A Basic Chaucer Glossary Medical wordlists ordered by specialty (no translations, no definitions) Moby Project files at Oxford or here Check Jorge Stolfi's wordlists DICT.org maintains the English/American dictionary server protocol Search Engine Terms (ok) Glossary of Literary Terms Glossary of Military Terms, Phrases, Abbreviations, Slang Oxford wordlist computer terminology Oxford wordlist about networks Oxford wordlist about databases Oxford wordlist about dictionaries Oxford wordlist literature Oxford wordlist movies and TV Oxford wordlist music Oxford wordlist proper names Oxford wordlist religion Oxford wordlist places Oxford wordlist science CNET glossary British Council Quizzes Multiple-choice tests on a variety of topics. With solutions. PDF format. Dialects Dictionary of American Regional English A dictionary of American English based on regional and folk usage. Black and Gay glossary Wordlist (Offensive!) (ok) BritSpeak UK-US Dictionary The Survey of English Usage based at the University College London UK- US English Dictionary US- UK English Dictionary Oxford wordlist American English Oxford wordlist Australian Rasta/Patois Dictionary (broken) Learn Jamaican Patois (broken) Rasta/Patois Word List (Jamaica) fine, full of metaphors and encyclopedic entries Rasta/Patois-Russian Word List cross-referenced, available in five codepages
		Unclassified				Langenscheidt's New College Dictionary Beard's Merriam-Webster Dictionary and thesaurus Although thesaurus interface is sometimes difficult (Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Tenth Edition) Webster's English Dictionary WordSmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus An integrated dictionary and thesaurus. Merriam-Webster Dictionary Archive of Etymologies from The Logical World of Etymology About origins of words. Dialects South Pacific dictionary U.S./U.K.: words that are vulgar or embarrassing in one dialect but not the other (text only version) BritSpeak, British-English <-> American-English dictionary Larry's Aussie Slang and Phrase Dictionary British vernacular glossary British<>American online dictionary online dict. and wordlist HPS US-UK dictionary BritSpeak Jeremy's US-UK dictionary English. Aussie Slang and Phrase Dictionary English. Cockney-English/English-Cockney Rhyming Dictionary Cockney means "native of London, especially of the East End". English. New Words in English Instances of words and word uses that appear to be new in the language (slang) compiled by students in a linguistics class at Rice University. Slang The Jargon File The Online Slang Dictionary 774 terms on 4 HTML pages. Definitions and parts of speech. English. A Dictionary of Slang Slang expressions heard in the North-West of England. English. True-Blue. Aussie Slang Source English. Turn of Phrase An archive of English words and phrases which have not yet reached most dictionaries.
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