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1000Dictionaries.com
Find links to online dictionaries, medical, languages, finance, health, food, computers, encyclopedias, etc.

Access Place Library
Directory of online books, poetry, book reviews, bookstores, authors, biographies, maps, dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotes, history, education, government information, legal, locators, etc.

Collection of Web-Dictionaries
Here's a sorted list of online dictionaries of more than 50 languages, mostly bilingual.

DICT Development Group
This site features a WWW interface to several freely available on-line dictionaries, including Webster's 1913, the Jargon File, the US Gazetteer, and Easton's Bible Dictionary.

Dictionaries on the Web
Find more than 100 links to various dictionaries of about 40 languages.

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Dictionary.com
Whether you have questions about a word, grammar or language, this is a great site to answer your questions.

English-Online.Net
Find online dictionaries, thesaurus, dictionary link collections, translations, idioms and phrasal verbs, and much more.

The Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
"The Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT) is the premier online American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus. WEDT contains 50,000 headwords, and very precisely defined and hyperlinked synonyms."

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