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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
A comprehensive reference on the
spelling, history, and usage of thousands of foreign words and phrases
used by English speakers for from more than forty
languages.
The Modern Language Association language map
Using data from the U.S. 2000 Census, this
site offers interactive mapping to show the density of speakers of
thirty-seven languages and language groups.
Ancient Scripts
A online compendium of world scripts from ancient times to the present
Online Dictionaries
- ARTFL Project: French-English-French Online Dictionary
- Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jakob und Wilhelm Grimm Searchable version of the 32-volume DWB (1838-1960), the German equivalent of the OED.
- dict.cc Searchable online English-German and German-English dictionary.
- LEO English-German Dictionary Searchable English-German and German-English dictionary. Claims over 400,000 entries.
- Oxford English Dictionary Second edition, updated quarterly
- Oxford Language Dictionaries Online Access to foreign lang. dictionaries, including French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish. Can search or browse through dictionaries. Entries include idiomatic expressions and usage examples.
- Other online dictionaries and thesauri From WU Libraries' website, links to other online dictionaries and thesauri.
Print Dictionaries
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- French--English dictionaries
- German--English dictionaries
- Spanish--English dictionaries
- Other languages Fill in the language in the search box.
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