Major Online Dictionaries
- Merriam Webster OnlineA commercial site that has both a dictionary and thesaurus.
- Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
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Includes the complete text of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. plus quarterly updates of new and revised entries. Trace the origin and history of words and their meanings in this etymological dictionary. - Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
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Spans 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. UC subscription allows limited simultaneous users, so if you can't connect try again later.
Print Dictionaries
To find print dictionaries in the library, the easiest way is to look under the call numbers in the following chart. The best and/or most recent dictionaries are usually in the Powell Library Main Reading Room and the Research Library Reference Reading Room. Older dictionaries (which can be checked out) are shelved in those libraries' book stacks with the regular books.
- Arabic: PJ 6640
- Chinese: PL 1455
- Danish: PD 3540
- Dutch: PF 640
- English: PE 1625
- Finnish: PH 279
- French: PC 2640
- Gaelic: PB 1591
- German: PF 3640
- Greek: PA 445
- Hebrew: PJ 4833
- Hungarian: PH 2640
- Indonesian: PL 5076
- Irish: PB 1291
- Italian: PC 1640
- Japanese: PL 679
- Korean: PL 937
- Latin: PA 2635
- Norwegian: PD 2691
- Persian: PK 6391
- Polish: PG 6640
- Portuguese: PC 5333
- Russian: PG 2640
- Spanish: PC 4640
- Swedish: PD 5640
- Tagalog: PL 6056
- Turkish: PL 191
- Yiddish: PJ 5117
For languages not on the list, search the Library Catalog for "[language] dictionaries" on the Advanced Search screen, using the Search filter Subject. For dictionaries that translate into English use "[language] english dictionaries."