This first section of useful links and resources for translators and interpreters includes these categories of dictionaries and glossaries:
General Monolingual / General Into & Out of Spanish /
General Multilingual / Pronunciation Multilingual
The other four sections of useful links and resources for translators and interpreters on separate pages are:
subject-specific dictionaries and glossaries
translation-related tools and links
It is worth checking with your University to see whether they have agreements in place for you to access some of these resources free of charge.
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 de Significados y Definiciones
- Diccionario del Español de México
- Diccionario español de construcciones preposicionales
- 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
- 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)
Pronunciation Multilingual
- Forvo pronunciation dictionary (400 languages)
- YouGlish improve your pronunciation using YouTube videos (ar-de-el-en-es-fr-he-it-ja-ko-nl-pl-pt-ru-tr-zh)
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