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American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
http://www.bartleby.com/61/
Fourth edition of this dictionary.
Merriam
Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
The online versions of the well-known Collegiate dictionary and thesaurus.
Also has links to Word of the Day and Word Games.
World
Central
http://www.wordcentral.com/
Easy student dictionary. You can also increase your vocabulary with the
daily buzzword.
DictSearch
http://www.foreignword.com/Tools/dictsrch.htm
Search tool for bilingual translation from and into dozens of languages.
French-English
Dictionary
http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/dictionary/
Only French to English (no English to French). This site provides not
only definitions but usage examples.
Cambridge Dictionaries
Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Search beginning, intermedia and advanced dictionaries, and dictionaries
of idioms and phrasal verbs (get on, get off, get around, etc).
Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Online version of the 10th edition of Bartlett's. (Note: this is an old
edition of Bartlett's and will not have many quotations from the 20th
century).
Columbia
World of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/66/
Search over 65,000 quotations by author or category. Includes historical
quotes as well as quotes through the last decade of the 20th century.
Cliché
Finder
http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
Type in a word to get a list of clichés containing that word, e.g.,
"cat" - cat got your tongue?, look what the cat dragged in.
You'll have to look somewhere else, however, for an explanation of what
the cliché means.
The
Quotations Page
http://www.quotationspage.com/
Search by word, phrase, author.
Acronym
Search
http://www.irs.aber.ac.uk/acronyms/
Search for what the acronyms OPEC, NASA, UNICEF and thousands of others
mean.
A Glossary
of Literary Terms
http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
Can't find your term in the handbook of rhetorical devices? Look here.
Handbook
of Rhetorical Devices
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
Look
up terms such as alliteration, personifcation, etc.
List
of Latin Phrases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases
An alphabetical listing of phrases in Latin, with translation and usage
notes.
Whatis?.com
http://whatis.techtarget.com/
Definitions for thousands of computer and technology-related words and
phrases
Synonyms
& Antonyms (Thesaurus)
Roget's Thesaurus Search Form
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
Searchable version of Roget's Thesaurus.
Merriam Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
The online version of the Merriam Webster thesaurus. Also has links to
the dictionary, Word of the Day and Word Games.
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