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Dictionaries and Reference Materials

Links to free dictionaries, glossaries and other reference materials online.
American Sign Language
A basic dictionary with terms, letters and numbers.
Dictionary.com
Your basic online dictionary, contains a word of the day section and more.
Familiar Quotations
This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905
InfoPlease.com
Encyclopedia Search gives you access to more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
Merriam-Webster Online
On-line 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.
Roget's Thesaurus
Find synonyms and antonyms.
The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
Perfect rhymes; last sound matches; match consonants; homophones; semantic siblings; synonyms; definitions; related words; spell check; pictures.
The World Factbook
The U.S. government’s complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations.
Translator
Translate text and Web pages instantly.
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