• Internet Dictionary Project

• Chinese Dictionaries
  • Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Chinese-English Dictionary: Carnegie-Mellon University
  • Chinese Character Genealogy: An Etymological Chinese-English Dictionary: Page by Rick Harbaugh
  • English-Chinese Dictionary: National Taiwan University
  • Cantonese Pronunciation Dictionary, now available!
  • Chinese Character Dictionary by Erik E. Peterson. See also other useful Chinese tools in Java from the same source

  

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• English Dictionaries & Thesauri:
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (OED-2)
    • Oxford English Dictionary Electronic Text Center
  • Free Online Dictionaries from Cambridge University Press
  • Harper-Collins' Cobuild English Dictionary Home Page
  • Ultra Lingua Dictionary
  • Nathan Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary, 1736: SGML format, need Panorama viewer from SoftQuad
  • Webster's Dictionary /Hypertext version: (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Hypertext Webster Gateway: University of California at San Diego
  • WWWebster Dictionary: a courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica Online
  • Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus: Gopher interface!
  • American English Dictionary
  • Old English Dictionary/Old English Corpus
  • English Dictionary: UK->US, US->UK

  • Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  • The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
  • NASA Thesaurus
  • Roget's Thesaurus: HTML version [good for "semantic field" researcher]
    • with a Alphabetical Listing of Contents
    • divided in to six main classes of words
  • Roget's Thesaurus:ARTFL Project
    • Search
    • Browse headwords
  • Roget's Thesaurus (1911, updated)
  • Rodman Thesaurus
  • WordNet: A Lexical Database for the English Language, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University
    • Search windows available for Java and for HTML: Princeton
    • WordNet Navigator: A Java browser developed by Jorge J. Gomez Sanz and by Manuel de Buenaga
  • EuroWordnet: University of Amsterdam

  • The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: by E. Cobham Brewer (edition 1894, now in hypertext)

  

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• French Dictionaries:
  • ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary
  • ARTFL Project: French word frequencies search
  • Le Dictionnaire Français-Anglais
  • HyperSurfing English - French Dictionary
  • ARTFL: Search Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue française
  • Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (1694-1935): Also available in English
  • French-English Dictionary

  • List of French Language Dictionaries: Simon-Fraser University Libraries
  • Dictionnaires et Lexiques: List of French dictionaries and lexicons put together by Swarthmore College

  

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• German Dictionaries:
  • Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jakob und Wilhelm Grimm: Arbeitsstelle Göttingen
  • Meyers Lexikon - Das Wissen A-Z, encyclopedic lexicon in German
  • Langenscheidts Wörterbuch Englisch-Deutsch und Deutsch-Englisch
    (Nur in Passau! No public access!)
  • Langenscheidts Handwörterbuch Online
  • Langenscheidts Taschenwörterbuch Englisch
  • LEO Dictionary German <> English: LEO for Link Everything Online
  • Chemnitz
  • German idiomatic dictionary
  • Toledo University
  • The new English-German Dictionary: from Dresden,Germany
  • German-English Dictionary: Freie Universität Berlin
  • Bretonisch-Deutsches und Deutsch-Bretonisches Wörterbuch
  • Kamus Jot: Indonesian-German online dictionary

  • Trans-K Glossary of Translation and Interpreting Terminology: English to German and German to English

  

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• Greek and Latin Dictionaries
  • Liddell & Scott Intermediate Lexicon of Classical Greek
  • Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
  • Frequencies of Greek Words in Perseus 2.0
  • English Index for Greek Database included in Perseus 2.0
  • Greek Lexicon of Hesychius: pending
  • GREEK-ENGLISH DICTIONARY: by Th.Vamvakos
  • Ancient Greek Dictionary: with English, German, French, and Italian explanation.
  • Morphological Analyses for Inflected Greek Words
  • Greek Words used in English: by The Greek Connection
  • Greek and Hebrew dictionary index: Greek/Hebrew Definitions are taken from the Online Bible software. Copyright © 1994 by Timnathserah, Inc.- Canada, and Stg. Publishare - the Netherlands.

  • Medieval Latin Word list (367 KBytes): by Lynn H. Nelson of University of Kansas. - Local copy
  • Latin-English Dictionary: basing on the above word list. Search device provided by us (RIH, CUHK)
  • Vademecum in opus Saxonis et alia opera Danica compendium ex indice verborumi: Medieval Latin Dictionary

  

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• Dictionaries for other Languages
  • Czech<>English Dictionary: Moravia Translations Dictionary
  • Travlang's Danish-English On-line Dictionary
  • Das Pommersche Wörterbuch of Dutch
    -provided by Die Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
  • Österreichisches Deutsch und "Österreichisches Wörterbuch" Austrian German
  • Esperanto-English Dictionary
  • Halaka <> English Dictionary
  • (Hungarian)Magyar-English szótár/dictionary
  • English-Hungarian Dictionary
  • Italian-English Dictionary: Italian-English, English-Italian
  • Japanese-English Dictionary:
    • Utrecht University
    • Jeffrey's Japanese-English Dictionary
    • Japanese-English-Japanese: The EDL Word, Concept, Bilingual, and Cooccurrence Dictionaries
  • Small Spanish-English Dictionary: Spanish-English, English-Spanish

  • Norwegian Dictionaries
  • English-Russian & Russian-English Dictionary
  • Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa
  • Online Sanskrit Dictionary
  • Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon
  • Sanskrit to French Dictionary: by Gérard Huet
  • Speak Sanskrit
  • Small English-Slovak tourist dictionary
  • Slovene-English & English-Slovene Dictionary
  • Svensk-engelskt lexikon: English interface - Swedish-English dictionary
  • Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Teaching and Practice
  • Tibetan utilities for Windows
  • Welch-German Dictionary, Walisisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch
  • Welch-English Dictionary

  • ECHO-Eurodicautom (official & technical terms in many european languages, searchable)
  • The Logos Homepage: with a multilingual lexicon

  

• Feudal Terms, by Michael Adams aka Morgoth (local)

• AGI GIS Dictionary
• Find Distance Between Two Locations (Use Geographic Name Server)
• Geographic Information Systems
• Geographic Name Server, University of Michigan
• CIA World Factbook (See Other References.)

• Maps (See Other References.)

• Current & Historical Events (Amdahl)

• Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
• Biographical Dictionary: now hooked up with Barnes & Noble
• Biography.COM: with a Search enginefor more than 20,000 entries
• Britannica's Birthday Calendar
• Encyberpedia: The Living Encyclopedia
• CEDCOM genealogical data (Europe Royal families & US presidents)
• Greek Mythology
• 500 Notable Women
• 1994 WHO is WHO

  

History

• On-Line Leibniz Dictionary
• Philosophical Calendar:

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• System manuals, in Yahoo

• Dictionary of Computing: Gopher; WWW
• On-Line Dictionary of Computing
• BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Related Abbreviations and Acronyms
• The New Hacker's Dictionary
• Jargon Files
• Jargon Files
• Hacker dictionary (local)

  Internet

• Smilie dictionary (local)
• Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet (local)
• HELP: Internet Assistance
• The Bible of Usenet

  

Computer & the Humanities

• Encyclopaedia Britannica (free for CUHK users, otherwise need subscription). Also accessible through mirrors in San Diego or in the UK
• Encyclopedia Americana Online: Try Version (ID: tryea, Password: book
• Columbia Encyclopedia, 5th Edition
• The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition: more than 17,000 articles free of charge
• Free Internet Encyclopedia
• OMNIPÆDIA POLYGLOTTA: A multilingual project by Francisco López Rodríguez
• The Electric Library
• Lexicon of Linguistics: Hans Leidekker, (Utrecht)
• The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: by E. Cobham Brewer from the new and enlarged edition of 1894
• Dictionary of Symbolism: University of Michigan
• BiblioMania: The Network Library
• In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities: SIL Summer Institute of Linguistics
• A List of acronyms
• Dictionary of Acronyms
• Abbreviations for International Organizations
• Biographical Dictionary (See History-Related References.)
• Easton's Bible Dictionary
• English and Technical Dictionary (See Computer-Related References)
• Feudal Terms (See History-Related References.)
• The Alternative Dictionaries - slang, "dirty" words and other "bad language"
• A List of Quotes Pages
• TPCN Quotation Center
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (9th Edition), Columbia University
• Michael Moncur's Quotation Page
• LOQTUS

• Maps and Geography - Collection of maps and further links (wide coverage!)
• Maps, CMU
• Map Collection, University of Texas
• Historical Maps of Paris
• Map Viewer
• WorldMap

• Time Around the World
• Date & Time Gateway
• Calendar (month)
• Calendar (year)

• Weights & Measures, (CIA Factbook)
• Currency Converter

• CIA World Factbook
• Usenet FAQs

• OWL: The Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab
• Bibliography Styles, Writer's Workshop, UIUC
• The Internet & the Writer by Steven Elmer Baker

• The Reference Desk, University of California, Irvine
• Other On-line References, CMU
• The Virtual Reference Desk, Purdue University

  

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• WhoWhere: the largest, most accurate directory of personal and business phone numbers, physical addresses and e-mail addresses on the internet
• Internet Country Codes
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• Select Phone
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