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http://dictionary.cambridge.org

We publish dictionaries for people learning English all around the world.

Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.

http://dictionary.oed.com

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri

The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curios with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curios with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology definitions.

yourDictionary.com is a language products and services company that maintains the most comprehensive and authoritative language portal on the web with more than 2500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages, games that build language skills, and a forum (The Agora) for discussing language issues with the logophile community.