Background Information: Dictionaries

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English Language Dictionaries

• Oxford English Dictionary - Over 20 volumes of information on the history and meanings of English words.
• Merriam-Webster Online - Dictionary and thesaurus.
• Yourdictionary.com - American Heritage dictionary.  Also can translate words into and from five European languages.
• Internet Public Library: Dictionaries - Provides links to many types of dictionaries, including slang, rhyming, American Sign Language, etc.

• Yourdictionary.com Language Dictionaries - Links to over 250 online non-English dictionaries.

• ARTFL Project - French to English, English to French.

• Dictionary of Spanish - Spanish to English, English to Spanish.
• Google Translate - Translate blocks of text and websites

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