Thesauri and Other Vocabulary Aids

Need something besides the definition of a word? A synonym or antonym? Or are you looking for an abbreviation of a phrase? Do you need your own lexical database? We have them all.

Abbreviations & Acronyms

• Academic Journal Abbreviations
• Acronyms and Abbreviations (17818 acronyms in 2000)
• Acronym Finder (174,000 acronyms)
• Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds (Berlin)
• Caribbean Agricultural Acronyms
• A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
• German-English Acronym Dictionary (Berlin)
• Guide to Advertising Terminology
• Index of On-line Acronym and Abbreviation Lists
• Morgan's Abbreviations
• NUMA Dictionary of Banking and Monetary Acronyms
• Pharmaceutical Acronyms
• The Stands4 Acronym Supermarket

Synonym etc. Dictionaries

• Homophone Dictionary
• The Anagram Dictionary
• Various Instantiations of the WordNet Database
  • Antonyms, Homonyms, Meronyms, Holonyms, Hypernyms, Hyponyms and Synonyms
  • English words in antonym, hypernym, hyponym, meronym & synonym sets
  • Hypernym-Hyponym-Meronym-SynonymDictionary
  • Synonym Dictionary of English
  • Synonyms & Antonyms

Thesauri

• Rodman Thesaurus (gopher)
• Roget's Thesaurus
   
• Roget's Thesaurus in yourDictionary
• Browsable Version
• Roget's Thesaurus II (1995) & Roget's International (1922)
• Walters English Thesaurus
• The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
• WWWebster Thesaurus
• Sanat English Thesaurus
• Soule's Synonym Dictionary

Phrase Dictionaries

• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer (1894)
• Gary Martin's English Phrase Etymological Dictionary

Quotations

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Project Bartleby)
• The Quotations Page

Lexicography and Lexical Data Bases

• Association of Computational Linguistics SIGLEX Archives
• Bibliomania—search for words in a growing list of novels
• The British National Corpus
• Collection of searchable texts in English, French, German, Spanish, Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Apache, Greek, Hebrew, Tibetan, Icelandic, Italian, Portuguese, some of them (i.e. Apache) with grammatical notes
• Collins COBUILD Databases
• ICAME Databases
• International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME)
• ISK Corpora (Brown Corpus, English, French, German)
• Oxford Text Archives (search "dictionary")
• Oxford Wordlists of 25 Languages
• Word Gumbo Public Domain Language Resources
• WordNet - A Lexical Database for English

Pronunciation and Rhyming Dictionaries

• CMU Pronouncing Dictionary Accented?
• Penguin Rhyming Dictionary
• Rhymzone Multifunctional Dictionary
• WriteExpress On-line Rhyming Dictionary
• Vocabulary of Alliteration

Writing Systems

• Ancient Scripts of the World — Lawrence Lo's ever-growing masterpiece
• Omniglot Writing Systems
• African Writing Systems, Africana Library at Cornell University

Miscellany

• 1,000,000 Scrabble Links (huge 320K HTML file)
• The Cliché Finder
• Dictionary of Difficult Words (12,700 words in all fields)
• A Little Etymology
• A Glossary of Place Names of Indian Origin in Florida
• GlossPost: a discussion list for translators, interpreters, terminologists and technical writers.
• Measurement Converters
• Read the Bible in 55 Different Languages
• Short Word Lists (the Words for 1-10) in 300+ Native American Languages
• Spell Web See how popular your spelling is on the Web
• Yak-Yak On-line Danish-English-Norwegian-Swedish Word Finder (Spellchecker)
• Universal Currency Converter

Multilingual Dictionaries

• Index of All Language Dictionaries
• Afro-Asiatic Language Dictionaries
• Altaic Language Dictionary List
• Celtic Language Dictionaries
• Germanic Language Dictionaries
• Romance Language Dictionaries
• Slavic Language Dictionary List

General

Eurocosm - Multilingual Phrase Dictionary (50,000 phrases translated simultaneously into French, Spanish, Italian and German.)

English German French Italian Spanish Any of these words All of these words Enter searchword(s), choose language it is written in and search type, click on 'Search'

• Allwords English Dictionary with a Multilingual Search German, Dutch, French, Italian, and Spanish
• The Bulgarian Rechnik: Bulgarian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian
• CBOLD Search Dictionaries of up to 32 Bantu languages • Downloads
• DICTSEARCH All-in-one Dictionary Search: Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
• Eurodicautum: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish (all directions) •
• English-Kalasha-Khowar-Nuristani-Hindi-Urdu-Pashtu Word List
• From Language to Language General Dictionary: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish
• Hejma Vortaro Esperanto-Multilingual
• The Internet Dictionary Project. Download based on words and definitions contributed by visitors: French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and English
• JDictionary download (supports English -> German, English <-> Hungarian and German -> Hungarian)
• Tritrans Norwegian-English-Spanish Word Translator
• ZAZ Multilingual Dictionary: English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish
• Seventeen Language Multilanguage Dictionary
• Vesna Belarussian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, English Dictionary
• Finnish - (Irish) Gaelic Dictionary
• Multilingual dictionary and translation tool: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Latin, Czech
• English, French, Turkish and German to Arabic translator

Agriculture

• Agrovoc Agricultural Database: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Glossary of Terms for Agriculture, Agricultural Economics and Precision Farming: English, German

Architecture

• Basic Glossary of Architecture
• English to Kurdish architecture dictionary

Art

• Multilingual Dictionary of Terms for Art Librarians (188 pp. PDF File)

Biology

• Common Names of Insects in Canada: English, French, Latin
• Dictionary of Bird Names: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch
• Multilingual Equine (Horses) Dictionary

Chemistry

• Periodic Tables of the Elements in Over One Hundred Languages
• Chemistry Translated: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
• Periodic Table of the Elements in 100 Languages

Clothing

• Vocabulary for Cataloguing Clothing and Costume: English, French, German

Computing

• International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) Online Database: English, French, German
• Queen Mary Glossaries of Computing Terms: English, French, German, Spanisy

Construction

• Fachwortverzeichnis der Holztechnik Deutsch-Französisch-Englisch

Cooking

• The Cook's Illustrated Dictionary: English, French, German, Spanish
• English to Spanish Cooking Terminology
• Food Lexicon: Danish, Dutch, English, French, and German
• Multilingual Gastronomical Glossary: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Education

• The European Education Thesaurus: Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish

Engineering

• International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) Online Database: English, French, German

Environment

• Environmental Glossary of Terms

Etymology

• Starostin's Etymological Data Bases. About 40 languages from Altaic, North Caucasian, Dravidian, Chukhot-Kamchatkan, Sino-Tibetan, Semitic families

Film

• Multilingual Online Film Dictionary: 19 languages

Finance

• Capital Financial Dictionary: Basque, Catalan, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish
• Dictionary of Banking: English, French, German, Italian
• Term Finance: A Glossary on Derivative Instruments (English, French, German, Italian)

Fish

• Sjávardýraorðabók Dr. Gunnars Jónssonar Fish Dictionary in Danish, English, French, Icelandic, Latin, and Norwegian

Geology

• Geoecological Dictionary (Russian, English)

Internet

• NETGLOS Multilingual Glossary of Internet Terms: Chinese, English, French, German, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish

Law

• Internal Revenue Service glossary: English, Spanish
• Canadian multilingual glossary: English, Chinese(simplified, traditional), Farsi, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese

Linguistics

• Electronic Glossary of Linguistics Terms: English, Spanish

Marketing

• Marketingwörterbuch Deutsch-English-Français

Mathematics

• Finnish-English-Swedish Glossaries of Mathematics

Medicine

• Glossary of Medication Terms: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italiain, Portuguese, Spanish
• Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages
• Thesaurus of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Protuguese, Spanish, Swedish (Large PDF file)

Music

• Dictionary of musical terms: English, French, German and Serbian

Photography

• English-German-Italian Photographic Glossary

Religion

• Glossary of Buddhist terms

Sailing and Shipping

• Heinrich Paasch Multilingual Glossary of Nautical Terms: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Index of On-line Nautical Glossaries

Sports

• Multilingual Dictionary of Recreational Diving and Underwater Activities (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish)

Statistics

• ISI International Glossary of Statistics: Afrikaans, Chinese, Dutch, English, Euskara, Farsi, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish.
• VIROS - Virtual Institute for Research in Official Statistics (Eurostat)

Telecommunications

• ITU Telecommunication Terminology Database: English, French, Russian, Spanish

Textiles

• Textile Technical Dictionary: English, French, German and Spanish
• Textile terms translator: English, Italian, French and German

Trade

• Foreign Trade Information System dictionary of trade terms: English, Spanish, Portuguese and French

Urban Planning

• Glossary of Urban Infrastructure Maintenance - A Worldbank Glossary: English, French, Spanish

Water

• International Glossary of Hydrology (11 languages)

Translate between Languages!

• American Translators Association (organization for translators)
• Babelfish Multilingual Translation (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish)
• Direct Translation from InterTran
• E-mail Translator (English, French, German, Spanish)
• Excite Translator (English, Japanese) For Japanese fonts, click here
• PROMPT-Reverso Online Translation
• Free Translation.Com (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese)
• Mezzofanti Translations
• Systran Translator (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese)
• Translation and Language Links (Open Directory Project)
• WorldLingo Text Translator (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish)
• Eurocosm Multilingual Phrase Dictionary (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish (with audio pronunciations)

Universal Currency Converter

An Index of Dictionary Indices

• Encyberpedia - Dictionary & Glossary
• General Language and Specialty Dictionaries by Anita Nuopponen
• Kitamakura's On-line Glossary Index
• Leximagne--l'Empereur des pages dico (up and down)
• Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias
• On-Line Dictionaries and Glossaries   
• On-line Dictionary and Glossary Site
• Paderborn Index of Dictionaries on WWW
• Peter's Translation Links (English, German, Danish)
• J.R. Dias' Translation Links
• Yahoo Dictionary Index