Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Author: G & C. Merriam Co., 1913
No. of Definitions: 170,865
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) was the foremost English language dictionary of its time. It had been revised and unabridged from its predecessors since the first publication of the Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806 by Noah Webster (1758-1843), American lexicographer, spelling reformer and editor.
In 1988, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) was released to the public domain and now users and language enthusiasts all over the world have free access to this historic reference work. It features a diverse array of entries – 170.000 in all – containing foreign words & phrases, biographical and geographical names, signs & symbols in various fields of endeavor, punctuation, capitals & italics, documenting sources, forms of address, and much more.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) gives us etymological insight of how words change over time. It may be used as a language research tool, just for fun, as a history sleuth, or even for language arts or many other English projects.
The Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary and Thesaurus (Recommended)
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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Publisher: OUP
This is the world's bestselling advanced learner's dictionary, recommended by learners of English and their teachers, and used by 30 million people. Contains 183,500 British and American words, phrases, and meanings, as well as 85,000 examples showing how words are used. This work explains 20,000 word origins on the COMPASS CD-ROM. It includes over 2,000 words and meanings from British and American English, such as offshoring, life coach, sex up, wi-fi.
It's worth installing both dictionaries as search on hyphenated words doesn't seem to be working with the 7th ed.
Oxford Talking Dictionary
Publisher: OUP & Babylon.
No. of Entries: 117,766.
FEATURE RICH * FAMILY FRIENDLY * INFORMATION PACKED
- Instantly look up a word anywhere and locate words within the text of a definition or thesaurus entry.
- Partial word find locates words when you only know some of the letters.
- Alternate Spellings help you helps you find the word even if you don't know the correct spelling.
- Choose from over 500,000 definitions.
- Over 9,000 Encyclopedic entries and 83,000 Citations make this in - depth dictionary even more informative.
- Integrated Thesaurus provides comprehensive selection of 300,000 synonyms.
Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
1029 entries, from Dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this reference work is an absorbing and entertaining guide to English folklore.
It is also an authoritative reference source on such legendary characters as Cinderella, Jack the Giant Killer, and Robin Hood. It gives entertaining and informative explanations of a wide range of subjects in folklore: oral and performance genres such as cheese rolling, morris dancing, and rushbearing; superstitions such as crossing fingers and wishbones; beliefs like fairy rings and frog showers; and calendar customs from April Fool's Day to St. Valentine's Day.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
150,000 collocations with 9,000 headwords.
Upper-Intermediate to Advanced
A collocations dictionary that helps students write and speak natural-sounding English.
Collocations- common word combinations such as 'bright idea' or 'talk freely' - are the essential building blocks of natural-sounding English. The dictionary contains over 150,000 collocations for nearly 9,000 headwords.
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (5th Ed)
Publisher: OUP & Babylon
No. of Entries: 102,239
The Fifth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is a complete update of the most authoritative reference work for modern English. The text is based on the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and, in fact, the Shorter manages more than one third of the coverage of the OED in one tenth of the size. The Fifth Edition contains more than half a million definitions in its 3792 pages. Its innovative design makes this vast amount of information easy to consult, and especially makes the fascinating illustrative quotations identifiable in their surrounding text . This new edition incorporates a complete vocabulary update with over 3,500 new words and meanings, and many new illustrative quotations from modern authors. In total there are over 83,000 illustrative quotations from 7,000 authors. There is extensive coverage of scientific and technical English as well as English from around the world. The Dictionary is written on historical principles: entries show the historical development of words by listing meanings chronologically and giving datings for the first use of each sense. All major words used in English after 1700, as well as all the words in Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and the King James Bible, are included; many rare and obsolete words are also defined.
The Oxford World Encyclopedia (1998) (17459 entries)
The New Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus Translation Tool (BGL COMPRESSED FORMAT)
Regarding NOED:
Authoritative and up to date, this new edition of the world-famous Oxford English Dictionary contains words, phrases, and definitions, including new words. It offers rich vocabulary coverage, with full treatment of World English, rare, historical, and archaic terms, as well as scientific and technical vocabulary, and provides hundreds of helpful notes on grammar and usage.
No. of Entries: 89777
Regarding NOET:
This new edition of the Oxford Thesaurus provides comprehensive, reliable help for all writing needs and crossword solving. The synonyms and antonyms listed include unusual and specialist vocabulary as well as everyday words, and there is clear labelling of informal, dialect, literary and technical items. There are also example sentences, and thematic lists provide information on a wide range of subjects.
No. of Entries: 15774
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus
The Concise Oxford Dictionary
The Oxford Dictionary contains over 78,000 headwords providing coverage of more than 240,000 words, phrases and meanings. This dictionary offers rich vocabulary coverage including rare and historical terms, as well as scientific and technical vocabulary, with hundreds of helpful notes on grammar and usage.
The Concise Oxford Thesaurus
The Oxford Thesaurus contains over 17,000 headwords offering more than 365,000 synonyms covering everyday vocabulary as well as more unusual and specialist words, with clear labeling of informal, dialect, literary, and technical items. The most useful alternative words are given first, with the word closest in meaning to the word given in capitals.
Longman Dictionary Of Contemporary English (4th Ed)
Publisher: Longman
No. of Entries: 47627
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Clear Definitions Your students will always understand the definitions, no matter how difficult or technical the word they are looking up. All definitions are written using the Longman Defining Vocabulary of just 2000 common words. Real Examples Your students will learn real, natural English. All the 155,000 examples are based on the Longman Corpus Network, and provide students with useful model sentences for their own writing. Frequency Information The 3000 most frequent words in both spoken and written English are highlighted only Longman dictionaries do this. *63,000 collocations help students understand how words are used together *Real life examples show words in context *Avoid errors by using the Word Focus boxes and usage notes *Find the meaning you want quickly with clear signposts *3000 most frequent words highlighted in red the only reliable list of frequent words, based entirely on corpus research.
Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
No. of Entries: 45867
A fully updated edition of the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary and CD-ROM, with new, up-to-date vocabulary (e.g. sex up, speed-dating, whiteboard), new 'mini-collocation' boxes, and new frequency information to highlight the most important words to learn.
Collins Cobuild Dictionary
Author: HarperCollins
Widely regarded as one of the best dictionaries for English as a Second Language (ESL) learners, with unique whole-sentence definitions and examples.
The 5th Edition contains 34159 entries.
Macmillan English Dictionary (1st Edition)
Publisher: Macmillan
The most up to date, comprehensive and best value students' dictionary on the market. Created from scratch, by two teams of over 100 lexicographers, working in Britain and America, and using a corpus of over 200 million words collected from contemporary written and spoken sources, the Macmillan English Dictionary gives the most up-to-date information available about the meanings of words and how they are used in today's English. The dictionary has been designed for ease of use. Clear and simple difinitions of over 100,000 words and phrases are written using a defining vocabulary of no more than 2500 words. Longer entries are introduced by a menu to help you to find the correct meaning fast. Over 80,000 examples show the defined word in a real context which further strengthens students' understanding. The 7,500 most frequent words in English, which form 90 percent of all the written and spoken language we read and hear are made up from only 7,500 frequent words, are highlighted in red, and treated in more detail, with extra information and examples. The Macmillan English Dictionary helps students with words that are needed for communicating in English, and offers invaluable support for those who want to write and speak accurate and contemporary English.
Britannica Concise Dictionary
The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia is the perfect resource for information on the people, places, and events of yesterday and today. You'll find fast facts compiled with the quality and accuracy that have made Britannica the brand to trust. With over 28,000 articles, Britannica has created an incomparably practical and powerful tool that is easily accessible and affordable to users. The Encyclopedia's clearly written entries cover various branches of human knowledge, such as science, history, business, art, culture, geography, and geology, as well as more contemporary issues, such as cloning, terrorism, and globalization . Entries also include images and links to related articles. This is the ultimate desktop reference.
American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition
Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
No. of Entries: 91,832
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is an American dictionary of the English language published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969. Its creation was spurred by the controversy over the Webster's Third New International Dictionary. The AHD broke ground among dictionaries by using corpus linguistics in compiling word-frequency and other information. The AHD made the innovative step of combining prescriptive elements (how language should be used) and descriptive information (how it actually is used); the latter was derived from text corpora. Citations were based on a million-word, three-line citation database prepared by Brown University linguist Henry Kucera. (Wikipedia)