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The
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
This
dictionary provides over 90,000 entries featuring 10,000 new words and
senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color
illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes. |
Merriam-Webster
Online. You
have to subscribe to the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary, but the
site also provides a free dictionary and a free thesaurus, plus word
games and a word of the day. |
YourDictionary.com.
This
site provides a dictionary, a thesaurus, a foreign language translation
service, and much, much more. |
World
Book Online. World
Book Online includes a searchable encyclopedia, an atlas, a historical
“surf the ages”, current events, as well as resources for students,
parents, and teachers. |
Columbia
Encyclopedia.
This
encyclopedia contains nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling six and
one-half million words on a vast range of topics) and more than 80,000
hypertext cross-references. |
Roget’s
II: The New Thesaurus.
Roget’s
contains 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 |
Robert’s
Rules of Order. In
1876 General Henry M. Robert set out to bring the rules of the American
Congress to members of ordinary societies. His booklet has made
Robert’s name synonymous with the orderly rule of reason in
deliberative societies. |
Familiar
Quotations. John
Bartlett’s work contains over 11,000 searchable quotations, phrases,
and proverbs which he traces to their origins in ancient and modern
literature. |