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English Language Dictionaries

Webster`s Third New International Dictionary Unabridged
Coverage: current. The largest and most comprehensive American dictionary.

Grolier Online
Grolier Online includes several encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia America, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
Note: Provided as part of the NYS NOVEL databases

Oxford English Dictionary Online
2nd ed. with updates. A historical dictionary of English which aims to show not only the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world.

Roget`s II: the New Thesaurus (3rd ed.)
Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index.

Middle English Compendium
Coverage: varies. Offers access to an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.

Dictionaries – Arabic language

The Oxford English-Arabic dictionary of current usage Call Number: Case Reference PJ6640 .O93
xii ed.

Dictionaries – Chinese language

ABC Chinese-English comprehensive dictionary Call Number: Case Reference PL1455 .A33 2003
2003

Dictionaries – French language

ARTFL
Coverage: varies. Full text of works representing a broad range of use of the French language, including scholarly editions of literary works (12th - 20th centuries), as well as items from scientific and technical fields.

Grand dictionnaire francais-anglais, anglais-francais Call Number: Case Reference PC2640 .G68 1993
[Unabridged ed.] Paris : Larousse, c1993

The Oxford-Hachette concise French dictionary : French-English, English-French Call Number: Case Reference PC2640 .O935 1995
1995 ed.

The Oxford French dictionary and grammar Call Number: Case Reference PC2640 .O84 2001
2nd ed. / [editors: Marianne Chalmers ... et al.]

Dictionaries – German language

Concise Oxford-Duden German dictionary Call Number: Case Reference PF3640 .C69 2005
3rd ed.

The concise Oxford Duden German dictionary : English-German, German-English Call Number: Case Reference PF3640 .C69 1997
Rev. ed.

LEO English - German Dictionary
A German to English and English to German online dictionary from LEO GmbH

Oxford Duden German Dictionary
1999 ed. A German to English and English to German online dictionary.

Dictionaries – Greek language

Greek-English lexicon Call Number: Case Reference PA445.E5 L6 1883
7th ed., comp. by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott

The Oxford paperback Greek dictionary : [Greek-English, English-Greek] Call Number: Case Reference PA1139.E5 O94 1997
1997 ed.

Dictionaries – Hebrew language

comprehensive etymological dictionary of the Hebrew language for readers of English Call Number: Case Reference PJ4833 .K54 1987
xix ed.

Dictionaries – Italian language

The Cambridge Italian dictionary Call Number: Case Reference PC1640 .R4
Italian dictionary

The Oxford-Duden pictorial Italian and English dictionary Call Number: Case Reference PC1640 .O846 1995
new edition [1995]

Oxford Paravian Italian Dictionary Call Number: Case Reference PC 1640.O95.2006
English - Italian, Italian - English 2006

Dictionaries – Japanese language

Kenkyushas new Japanese-English dictionary Call Number: Case Reference PL679 .K4 1974
4th ed

Dictionaries – Latin language

Harpers Latin dictionary. A new Latin dictionary founded on the translation of Freunds Latin-German lexicon Call Number: Case Reference PA2365.E5 A7 1879
1879 ed.

Oxford Latin dictionary Call Number: Case Reference PA2365.E5 O9 1982
1983 ed.

Dictionaries – multiple languages

Foreignword.com: the language site
Word translation for 73 languages and small text translation

Dictionaries – Russian language

Oxford Russian dictionary / Russian-English Call Number: Case Reference PG2640 .W5 2007
4th ed

Dictionaries – Spanish language

Diccionario de la lengua espanola (Real Academia Espanola) Call Number: Case Reference PC4625 .A3 2001
22 ed.

Diccionario de la lengua espanola - Vigesima segunda edicion
Authoritative dictionary made available by the Real Academia Espanola.

Larousse gran diccionario : ingles-espanol, espanol-ingles Call Number: Case Reference PC4640 .L393 2004
2 ed.

The Oxford Spanish dictionary : Spanish-English/English-Spanish Call Number: Case Reference PC4640 .O94 2001
2nd ed.

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