Dictionaries

Different dictionaries

• Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries

  • The ARTFL Project
    Many public access databases including the Dictionnaires d'autrefois, the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, and the Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes
  • BEOLINGUS – Your Online Dictionary
    Provided by TU Chemnitz; dictionaries included are German and English, Spanish, Portuguese.
  • The Free Dictionary by Farlex
    Includes dictionaries for more than 10 languages and a powerful English thesaurus.
  • IATE – Inter-Active Terminology for Europe
    In IATE you can find EU-specific terminology and jargon, as well as terms from all sorts of areas, such as law, agriculture, information technology and many others. The dictionary covers all 23 official EU languages.
  • LEO Dictionary
    Comprehensive bilingual dictionaries for German and Chinese, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
  • Linguee
    Provides translation from English to French, German, Portuguese and Spanish by comparison of translated web pages; especially useful for idioms.
  • One Look Dictionary Search
    Meta-dictionary that will search over 900 general and special interest dictionaries.

• Monolingual dictionaries

  • Britannica Merriam-Webster
    A free dictionary of American English with reduced functionality compared to the subscription-based unabridged version.
  • Deutscher Wortschatz Universität Leipzig
    Largest dictionary for the German language.
  • Dictionnaire Electronique des Synonymes
  • Le Grand Robert
    This French dictionary offers 86,000 articles, 100,000 words, 350,000 meanings, and 410,000 use examples, as well as etymological information, quotations, homonyms, and much more.
  • openthesaurus.de
    German thesaurus.
  • Visual Thesaurus
    English thesaurus in the form of an interactive map of word clusters.
  • Wordnik
    Information about English words, including definitions, related words, images and audio presentation.

• Grammar & style

  • grammis
    Grammar information from the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (ids).
  • Guide to Grammar and Writing
    Clearly structured guide to English grammar.
  • Leitfaden zur deutschen Rechtschreibung
    Schweizerische Bundeskanzlei
  • Leitfaden zum geschlechtergerechten Formulieren
    Schweizerische Bundeskanzlei
  • William Strunk, Jr.: The Elements of Style
    Classic English reference.

• Translation sites

  • Deepl
    Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (American and British), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and European), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
  • Google Translate
    Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish.
  • Bing Translator
    English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.