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English Vocabulary & Dictionaries Apps. Current Version | WordNet. The most recent Windows version of WordNet is 2.1, released in March 2005. Version 3.0 for Unix/Linux/Solaris/etc. was released in December 2006. Version 3.1 is currently available only online. WordNet binaries and source are available for Windows and Unix-like systems (Irix, Solaris, and Linux binaries). There is also a Prolog package and some additional standoff files. Use of WordNet in other projects or papers Please note that WordNet® is a registered tradename. Princeton University makes WordNet available to research and commercial users free of charge provided the terms of our license are followed, and proper reference is made to the project using an appropriate citation.

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English Learner's Dictionaries

Dictionary literacy. WordWeb Online Dictionary and Thesaurus. Downloading WordNet and associated packages and tools | WordNet. Collocation English Dictionary. Oxford Learner's Dictionaries | Find definitions, translations, and grammar explanations at Oxford Learner's Dictionaries. Abbreviations and acronyms dictionary. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE | Browse topics. Got it! We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. More info Cookie Consent plugin for the EU cookie law English - Japanese English English - Japanese Japanese - English English version Browse topics Pictures of the day What are these?

Click on the pictures to check. Explore topics See all topics Word of the day locker a small cupboard with a lock in a school, sports building, office etc, where you can leave clothes or possessions while you do something Cookie Policy Privacy Policy Copyright and legal Pearson ELT About LDOCE How to use. Word frequency: based on 450 million word COCA corpus. Reverse Dictionary. <div id="needs_javascript"><center><b>Note: The new Reverse Dictionary requires JavaScript. </b><br /><img src="/img/a.gif? Q=omg_a_user_without_js"> If you have disabled JavaScript in your browser, please <a href=" it for this site</a> or use the <a href="/? W=entersearchhere&loc=revfp_legacy">old version of the reverse dictionary</a> here.

</p><p></center><div> How do I use OneLook's thesaurus / reverse dictionary feature? This tool lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Why would I want to do this? Here are some examples of how you might use this tool: Has this changed recently? Yes! How does it work? The reverse dictionary uses the Datamuse API, which in turn uses several lingustic resources described in the "Data sources" section on that page. Yikes. For some types of searches only the first result or the first few results are likely to be useful. Can I use this service from anywhere on OneLook? American Heritage Dictionary - Search. Welcome to WorldWide Scrabble. Visual Dictionary Online. Free English to Spanish Translation | Spanish Central. Dictionary and Thesaurus | Merriam-Webster. Online. Oxford Dictionaries - Dictionary, Thesaurus, & Grammar.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English- 6th Ed on the App Store. Wolfram Words Reference App on the App Store. Wordnik. Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary. Macmillan Dictionary | Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus Online. Free Online Collocations Dictionary. Comparison of English dictionaries. These tables compare modern and notable English dictionaries, split by market segment. Unless noted after the edition number, all are single-volume works. Number of entries Note that the publisher's definition of an entry differs. Some publishers count derivatives as separate entries while others count expressions consisting of more than one word as separate entries. The number of entries is a marketing term that should never be used to compare dictionaries. As an example, the 6th Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (SOED6, 2007) contains approximately:[citation needed] The 2nd Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) includes more historical entries because it also lists words that have been obsolete for centuries (back to the 7th century) due to changes in meaning and orthography.

Learner's dictionaries typically contain 40,000 to 50,000 words, which is half to one third of the current usage, but still claim hundreds of thousands of "entries". Full-size Collegiate. OneLook Dictionary Search. Divii English :: Courses.