Dictionaries

Location in Hoover Library    

Language dictionaries and thesauri are in the 400s section of the Reference collection. Other types of dictionaries are located under the subject of the dictionary, e.g. medical dictionaries are in the medical section, financial dictionaries are in the business section, etc. Dictionaries in the general circulating collection can be signed out.

English Dictionaries (Call number: 423)

  1. Webster's Online Dictionary --Dictionary and thesaurus.
  2. Oxford English Dictionary Provided by the Maryland Digital Library-- Contains the complete 2nd ed., and portions of the new 3rd ed. which is in progress. 2nd edition (1989). 20 vols. (Call number: R 423 O99)
  3. dictionary.com-- Dictionary and thesaurus
  4. Word Spy--A web site that gathers "recently coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are being used in new ways."
  5. OneLook dictionaries--Search a number of dictionaries at the same time.
  6. Wordsmyth-- Dictionary and thesaurus.
  7. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1894 edition)-- 1970 edition. (Call number: R 803 B847)
  8. CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon University)
  9. Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (Ian Lancashire, U. of Toronto, Canada)

English Thesauri  (Call number: 423.1)

  1. Roget's Thesaurus, Internet edition 1.5.1
  2. WWWebster Thesaurus (Merriam-Webster)
  3. Thesauri and Other Vocabulary Aids (yourDictionary.com)

Old English Dictionary

  1. Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) (University of Toronto, Canada)
    Renaissance English dictionary. Search through 16 bilingual and monolingual dictionaries published in England from 1530 to 1657.

Rhyming Dictionary (Call number: 423.1)

  1. Semantic Rhyming Dictionary (Doug Beeferman, Carnegie Mellon University)

Abbreviations and Acronyms Dictionaries  (Call number: 423.1)

  1. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  2. Acronym Finder
  3. Acronym Dictionaries (yourDictionary.com)
  4. Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary. 27th ed. Gale Group, 2000--(Call number: R 423.1 G151)
  5. All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources (Gerry McKiernan, Iowa State University)--Links to journal abbreviations lists.
  6. Periodical Title Abbreviations. 5th ed. 2 vols. Gale Research, 1986--(Call number: R 050.148 A415)

Sign Languages Dictionaries  (Call number: 419)

  1. HandSpeak--Formerly Sign Langauge Dictionary Online at Deaf World Web.
  2. Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
  3. Sign Languages Dictionaries (yourDictionary.com)

Other Languages Dictionaries

  1. Language Dictionaries (yourDictionary.com)--Many dictionaries from a variety of languages.
  2. travlang's Translating Dictionaries--Multilingual European-languages dictionaries.
  3. yourDictionary.com--Links to more than 800 dictionaries in 150 languages. Includes thesauri and grammars and multilingual and specialized Engish dictionaries. Excellent site.
  4. Dictionaries Resources (Internet Public Library)--Annotated list of dictionaries with links.
  5. Online Dictionaries and Translators (Bigben)--Links to dictionaries and translators.
  6. List of Dictionaries--Links to bilingual, technical, acronym and specialized dictionaries, and thesauri