Reference Resources: English Dictionaries and Thesauri

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	General English Dictionaries
	Acronyms
	Thesauri
	Library Glossaries
	Computing Dictionaries
	Other Specialized Dictionaries

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• The Glossarist, a searchable directory of English glossaries and topical dictionaries

• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition, 1996, from Bartleby.com
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online, including Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs or Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms
• Merriam-Webster OnLine, including WWWebster Dictionary and WWWebster Thesaurus
• Merriam-Webster Word Central
• OneLook Dictionaries; indexes multiple dictionaries
• Webster's Dictionary
• Wordsmyth: the Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus, a standard dictionary of American English, integrating a thesaurus within its structure, by Robert Parks

• Acronym Finder
• Acronyms, Abbreviations and Definitions Found in E-Mail Messages and Newsgroup Postings by Patrick Amato
• The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server

• Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition, 1996, from Bartleby.com
• Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Based on the 1911 edition from Project Gutenberg
• Roget's Thesaurus Search Form ARTFL Project, based on 1911 edition

• Abbreviations of the Names of the Months, Princeton University Library Catalog Division Documentation
• A Book Collector's Glossary by Carl Noe
• Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology by Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington; part of Stanford Libraries' project CoOL
• English-Spanish / Spanish-English Language Resources for Library and Information Science Professionals, by Tony Lozano, University of Granada
• Glossary of Bibliographic Information by Language, Queen's University at Kingston
• Glossary of Book Terms, Advanced Book Exchange
• Multilingual Glossary: Language Table, Marta Davis, Rutgers University Libraries
• Initial Articles, Princeton University Library Catalog Division Documentation
• ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science, Joan Reitz, Ruth A. Haas Library at Western Connecticut State University (was Hypertext Library Lingo)
• Technical Services Department Glossary, New York University Libraries

• Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms by Mitchell Shnier; an O'Reilly publication
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
• ILC Glossary of Internet Terms Internet Literacy Consultants
• Netdictionary Dictionary of technical, cultural, and humorous terms related to the Internet
• NetLingo Dictionary of Internet terms
• Search Engine Terms Glossary compiled for I-Search
• Whatis.com

• Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
• ArtLex, a dictionary of visual art
• BioTech's Dictionary of Science and Biotechnology
• Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
• Glossary of Financial Terms from Inc. Online
• Glossary of Poetic Terms by Robert G. Shubinski
• The Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms by Howard S. Hoffman
• Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences by Robert Drislane and Gary Parkinson
• The On-line Medical Dictionary CancerWEB
• The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary by Doug Beeferman