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Oxford Reference Online (6 users) This link opens in a new window
Contains almost 200 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Bi-lingual dictionaries include English-French, English-Spanish, English-Italian, English-German, and English-Latin. Includes over 50,000 additional in-depth, scholarly articles from titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions Series, plus all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of many English words. Second edition, updated quarterly. Learn more about this resource.
Yiddish Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Broad coverage of Yiddish words of all origins: Hebrew-Aramaic, Slavic, and Romance as well as Germanic; more words, and more idiomatic usages than in previous Yiddish-English dictionaries; many regional and dialectal variants are included alongside standard literary Yiddish forms.
ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) This link opens in a new window
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language contains over 2000 texts from the 12th through the 19th centuries.

Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jakob und Wilhelm Grimm
Searchable version of the 32-volume DWB (1838-1960), the German equivalent of the OED.

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Dictionaries
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Learning German
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Learning Swedish
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Chinese Studies: Language Learning
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