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dictionaries and other reference resources
dictionaries
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language - Fourth Edition
Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/61/
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. The online dictionary includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections of that book. It also includes 1,000 illustrations and 25 tables.
URL: http://www.m-w.com/
- The American Heritage® Spanish Dictionary (Diccionario inglés-español)- Segunda edición
La Segunda edición del American Heritage® Spanish Dictionary (Diccionario inglés español), fue revisada recientemente y ahora incluye el vocabulario más actual relacionado con computadoras, telecomunicaciones e Internet, tanto en inglés como en español. También presenta vocablos del inglés estadounidense y del español de América latina, son 70,000 palabras y más de 120,000 significados. Nuevamente revisado y actualizado para el siglo XXI, The American Heritage Spanish Dictionary (Diccionario inglés-español), Segunda edición, es un excelente apoyo para estudiantes, turistas y gente dedicada a los negocios.
URL: http://espanol.education.yahoo.com/
- Cambridge Dictionaries Online - the web's favourite dictionaries
English Language Learning - Cambridge Dictionaries Online has a series of dictionaries, one of which is for advanced learners of the English lanaguage and allows you to search for meanings.
URL: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
- Online Reference: Dictionaries, Thesauri, Acronyms
Includes: a searchable website of acronyms, Cambridge International (a collection of dictionaries for people learning English), Lexical FreeNet (a combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and "concept navigator" ), and More.
URL: http://www.csu.edu.au/division/library/eresource/diction.htm
- YourDictionaries.com
Your online dictionaries, with search engines from English into Spanish, German, French, Italian, Catalan, Polish,a dn from those languages into English.
URL: http://www.yourdictionaries.com/
encyclopedias
- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
- Columbia Encyclopedia - Sixth Edition
Containing nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references, the current Sixth Edition is among the most complete and up-to-date encyclopedias ever produced.
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/
- Yahoo Education - Columbia Encyclopedia
This free online encyclopedia is the same as the one above, only formatted differently. It contains over 50,000 entries and more than 84,000 hypertext cross-references covering a wide range of research and reference topics. The Columbia Encyclopedia is one of the most complete and up-to-date electronic encyclopedias ever produced.
URL: http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/
- Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
A free-content encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively by contributors from all around the world. The site is a wiki, "meaning that anyone with access to a ... computer can edit, correct, or improve information." Without editorial oversight, the quality of the content on this site varies dramatically, but it is worth exploring. The English version has hundreds of thousands of entries. Spanish, French, and Esperanto are among the several other languages offered.
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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