Dictionaries & Thesauri

While all external links provided throughout the Virtual Reference Desk are selected by Library staff as possible sources of information, the Library is not responsible for maintaining these external sites nor for their continued availability.

Bilingual French-English Dictionary
Practice your French as you search this bilingual dictionary containing over 83,000 words.

Duhaime's Law Dictionary
The law in plain language" compiled by a lawyer for the World Wide Legal Information Association.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
What languages are spoken where, by whom and to what others they are related.

Merriam-Webster Online
Includes links to a number of word-related features including "Word of the Day" and "Lighter Side of Language".

OneLook Dictionaries
A one-stop search of 449 indexed online dictionaries

Roget's II: the new thesaurus
Contains 35,000 synonyms, searchable both alphabetically and by category. The host site, Bartleby.com links to a number of other word-related tools.

Translation Dictionaries
Dictionaries that, given a word in one language, will show the identical or related word in another language.

yourDictionary.com
Includes multilingual and specialized English dictionaries as well as thesauri and grammars.