Oxford English Dictionary (Online)

worried_and_confused

The Oxford Dictionary of English Online includes over 355,000 words, phrases, and definitions - all the words you need. It provides the most complete and accurate picture of the English language today, based on the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, an unrivalled collection of hundreds of millions of words of modern English.

The leading single volume dictionary, now available online

Free access online until 31st January 2007.

Go to:

http://www.oxford-dictionaries.co.uk/signup

SwissToni_2

All free too:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://www.askoxford.com/
http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

alared

free download to install on your computer

http://wordweb.info/free/

Rex_Mundi

Also completely free (all the time) Wikipedia

calleyw

Great as I can't speel for toffee.


Yours

Calley

sainthalo

Bookmark the following into your links toolbar so you have a visible link called D or Dictionary which is visible on your firefox screen or IE screen. Location is:

javascript:{void(q=prompt('Enter%20word%20to%20look%20up%20at%20Dictionary.com:',''))}if(q)location.href='http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=1&q='+escape(q)

When you click the bookmark you get a dialog box where you can type a word in and it will return the definition from dictionary.com in a new tab or on your ie page.

Enjoy!

scaldyflash

sainthalo wrote:

Bookmark the following into your links toolbar so you have a visible link called D or Dictionary which is visible on your firefox screen or IE screen. Location is:

javascript:{void(q=prompt('Enter%20word%20to%20look%20up%20at%20Dictionary.com:',''))}if(q)location.href='http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=1&q='+escape(q)

When you click the bookmark you get a dialog box where you can type a word in and it will return the definition from dictionary.com in a new tab or on your ie page.

Enjoy!

Thank you for that sainthalo. It always annoyed me having to go via my bookmark to dictionary.com to find words. This will certainly speed things up.

:xmassign:

digp

is this the same as oed.com

sainthalo

scaldyflash wrote:

Thank you for that sainthalo. It always annoyed me having to go via my bookmark to dictionary.com to find words. This will certainly speed things up.

:xmassign:

you're welcome mate, be sure to pass this on to others

worried_and_confused

digp wrote:

is this the same as oed.com

No, not quite. This is the online version of the Oxford Dictionary of English, which is a 2000-page single volume dictionary containing about 350,000 references. I have a hardcopy of the dictionary, and I would thoroughly recommend it (although it is £35). It is drawn from the full Oxford English Dictionary, which runs to about 20 volumes I think.

The full OED is available online but you have to subscribe. To be honest, I can't see the point of subscribing to the full OED unless you are a specialist working in language research or something.

:xmassmile

worried_and_confused

Just checked and the full OED is £195 for 12 months online access... making the free Oxford Dictionary of English even more of a bargain!