Dictionaries

English Language Dictionaries | Foreign Language Dictionaries | Encyclopedias
 

Dictionaries —English Language

• American Heritage Dictionary 3d. ed.
  
• Cambridge International Dictionaries Online
  Designed for the international or second-language speaker, this site allows users to search four Cambridge dictionaries.
  
• Dictionary.com
  Includes dictionaries, Roget's Thesaurus, Strunk's Elements of Style, and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
  
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary 
  
• OneLook Reverse Dictionary
  This dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept.
  
• Oxford English Dictionary (Duke only)
  Provides the full text of the famous historical dictionary.
  
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
• Visual Dictionary Online
  Merriam-Webster helps you find words you have forgotten or never knew.
  
• Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged (Duke only)
  One of the individual literature collections available through LION.
  
• WordSmyth
  "...an innovative and evolving language reference source that meshes the functions of a dictionary and a thesaurus with powerful and flexible search capabilities."

Dictionaries —Foreign Language

• WordReference.com
  A dictionary to and from French, English, Italian, Spanish, as well as Spanish-Portuguese and the reverse.
  
• your Dictionary.com
  Provides over 150 foreign language dictionaries, as well as thesauri and grammars.
  
  

Encyclopedias

• Access Science (Duke only)
  An encyclopedia of science and technology.
  
• Britannica Online (Duke only)
  Contains the Encyclopædia Britannica and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
  
• Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
• Information Please
  
• Contains news, almanacs, dictionaries, an atlas and an encyclopedia.