Dictionaries
- Virtual Reference Collection - includes access to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for members of the Brown community
Dictionary Directories
- OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder - allows you to search for multiple definitions of a word from a variety of online dictionaries, including foreign languages
- List of Dictionaries - with dictionaries in multiple langauges
- Terminology Collection: Online Dictionaries
English-Language Dictionaries
- BritSpeak
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Effingpot's English/American Dictionary
- Middle English Dictionary
- New Words in English - Neologisms
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - 1913 edition
- The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
Foreign-Language Dictionaries
- Altavista's Babel Fish Online Translator - translate words, passages, or HTML pages
- Language Automation - Glossaries by Language - directory of dictionaries and resources
- Yahoo! Reference: Foreign Language Links
Dictionaries of Slang and Other Miscellaneous Sites
- The Online Slang Dictionary
- The Alternative Dictionaries - collaborative international slang dictionary. póg mo thón
- The Devil's Dictionary - based upon the works of Ambrose Bierce
- Nonsensicon - non existent words and their meaning
Dictionaries of Expressions
Word Imagery and Poetry - Similes, Rhymes, Etc.
- Lexical FreeNet - this program allows you to search for rhymes and relationships between words and concepts that might never have occurred to you
- Semantic Rhyming Dictionary