
ONLINE DICTIONARIES, THESAURI, ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Other Guides to Reference Sources
- Accurate Eye, from Australia, so you'd better have a fast connection, but this is an extensive, easy to use resource.
Dictionaries
- Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary and Thesaurus. Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate ® Dictionary, Tenth Edition. Linked with permission from Merriam-Webster, Inc.
- Another (older and not as slick, but unabridged) interactive Webster's Dictionary
- Collections of Online Dictionaries of All Kinds
- Online Dictionaries, from Bucknell
- Electronically Available Dictionaries and Corpora, from Brown University
- TRAVLANG Dictionaries, etc. for Travelers
- University of Indiana Biotech Dictionary
- Rhyming Dictionary
- Basic Dictionary of Sign Language Terms
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary -- devilishly good fun
- Acronym and Abbreviation Server
Quotations
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1901 version, with hyperlinks
Thesauri
- An interactive Roget's Thesaurus, maintained at University of Chicago
- WORD-NET: a new kind of Thesaurus
- Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary Type in the definition and get a list of words that (sometimes) fit.
Encyclopedias
- Biography, over 15,000 entries, which vary considerably in depth.
- Free Internet Encyclopedia, relies on information found on internet sites--a work in perpetual progress.
- Internet Encyclopedia, not a comprehensive research tool, this relies on a hybrid of the printed encyclopedia and internet directories.
- The Best of Kidopedia, another work in progress --written for children and teenagers by children and teenagers from around the world.
- Britannica Online, a smattering of free info, this would cost $175/year to subscribe to.