This first section of useful links includes these categories of dictionaries and glossaries:
The other four sections are: subject-specific dictionaries and glossaries; writing-related resources; translation-related tools and links; and other links of interest.
General English
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- Cambridge Essential British English Dictionary
- Collins English Dictionary British and American English
- Dictionary.com
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
- Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English
- Fine Dictionary definitions from 4 dictionaries, example sentences, facts, quotations, idioms, etc.
- The Free Dictionary
- Glossaries by EU Institutions and Bodies (TermCoord)
- Glossarissimo Monolingual & Multilingual resources & terminology
- Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- Heinle’s Newbury House Dictionary of American English
- MacMillan Dictionary
- Macquarie Dictionary Australian dictionary and thesaurus (free trial)
- Merriam Webster
- NZ English to US English
- OneLook Dictionary for definitions, words related to words or concepts, words/phrases starting or ending with word or letters, etc.
- The Online Slang Dictionary
- Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required – can be accessed with UK library card)
- Oxford Reference (subscription required – can be accessed with UK library card)
- TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus (free software to download)
- Urban Dictionary crowdsourced dictionary for slang terms and phrases
- Vocabulary.com a dictionary that includes a section called The Challenge to help you learn difficult words
- Wordnik definitions, examples ad related words
- WordWeb English Dictionary and Thesaurus (free and paid software to download)
- 3000+ Translation Glossaries List created by Inbox Translation
General Spanish
- Coloquialmente glosario sobre el español coloquial
- Diccionario Clave diccionario de uso del español actual
- Diccionario del Español de México
- Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (DPD)
- Dirae Diccionario inverso by the Real Academia Española
- DRAE Diccionario de la lengua española by the Real Academia Española
- Fundéu BBVA Fundación del Español Urgente (buen uso del español en los medios de comunicación)
- Goodrae diccionario hipertextual, lematizado y con búsqueda inversa
- Jergas de habla hispana
- Vocabulario Popular Cubano Diccionario Cubano- Español
General Monolingual
- Duden Wörterbuch online
- Larousse Dictionnaire de Français
General Into & Out of Spanish
- Academia Canaria de la Lengua
- Diccionario Argentino-Español
- Diccionario avanzado catalán-español dict.com
- Diccionario catalán – español Glosbe
- Diccionario catalán <> español Lexicool
- Diccionario español – mallorquín
- Diccionario General de la Lengua Asturiana
- Dudario General Servicio de Traducción al Español (Naciones Unidas)
- Granada University en<>es Dictionary
- Spanish Central by Merriam-Webster – translation with word-by-word breakdown
- Spanish Translator Services Several links to glossaries & dictionaries
- Word Magic es-en only
General Multilingual
- abcXXL Online Dictionary be, de, en, et, fr, ga, lt, lv, pl, ru, sv, uk
- Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias searches several resources
- Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias German version of the above
- Bab.la 28 languages
- Beolingus de-en-es-pt
- Collins Dictionaries de, en, es, fr and it
- Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ca, de, en, es, fr
- dict.cc English-German and Multilingual Dictionary
- Enciclopedia.cat Catalan-Spanish and Catalan-English dictionaries and more
- EuroTermBank multiple languages
- Euskalterm Basque public term bank en-es-eu-fr
- Forvo pronunciation dictionary
- Glosbe the multilingual online dictionary
- Glossaries by EU Institutions and Bodies (TermCoord)
- Glossarissimo Monolingual & Multilingual resources & terminology
- GlossaryLinks (TermCoord) search tool to find glossary you need from database of nearly 2,500 glossaries
- GoldenDict dictionary lookup program (software)
- Guidelines for contractors translating into English European Commission
- IATE InterActive Terminology for Europe. The database can also be downloaded.
- Keybot translation search machine in 143 languages
- Larousse Dictionnaires Bilingues fr-ar, fr-de, fr-en, fr-es, fr-it, fr-zh
- LDLP Dictionary ar and es, es, fr, de
- Le grand dictionnaire terminologique
- Lemma.com Over 80 dictionaries, several languages (subscription required, free trial available)
- LEO de-en, de-es, de-fr, de-it, de-pl, de-pt, de-ru, de-zh
- Lexicool Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries
- Linguatools de-cs, de-da, de-el, de-en, de-es, de-fr, de-it, de-nl, de-pl, de-pt, de-ro, de-sv
- Linguee
- MagicSearch search multiple sources (dictionaries, corpora, MT engines, search engines) with one click
- Microsoft Language Portal
- Multitran ru and af, de, en, es, et, fr, it, ja, lv, nl, xal
- MyMemory linguistic search engine of translated segments and terminology
- Oxford Dictionaries Premium (subscription required – can be accessed with UK library card)
- Proz.com Term Search
- Reverso Context translation in context
- Reverso Dictionary ar-de-en-es-fr-he-it-ja-ko-nl-pl-pt-ru-zh
- Swiss German Dictionary into English
- Tatoeba collection of sentences and translations
- TEPA Term Bank Finnish Terminology Center TSK en, fi, sv
- TermCoord Glossary Links – European Parliament Terminology Coordination
- Termium Plus
- TermSciences multidisciplinary terminological portal de-en-es-fr
- Tradooit en-fr, en-es, es-en, es-fr, fr-en, fr-es
- Translators Cafe TCTerms Questions
- UNTERM United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database
- Visual Dictionary en-es-fr
- Wiktionary
- WIPO Pearl WIPO’s multilingual terminology portal
- Word Hippo several languages, plus similar, opposite & rhyming words, etc.
- Word Reference
- WordFinder (subscription required to access over 500 dictionaries in 26 languages)
- Wörterbuchnetz
- Woxikon Multilingual dictionary & synonym database (8 European languages)
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