Since the first Merriam-Webster dictionary was issued in 1847, we have been America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The company publishes a diverse array of print and electronic products including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition—America's best-selling desk dictionary.

The Compact Oxford English Dictionary of current English contains some 145,000 words, phrases, and definitions. This free online dictionary also has search options for The Concise Dictionary of First Names and The Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

The Free Dictionary is an online dictionary resource with the goal of becoming the best reference website on the web and we aim to meet all of your research/information needs. Features include, searchable multilingual dictionaries, language forums, spelling bees, word match-ups and match more.

Your Dictionary is a free online dictionary that offers definition search from Webster's dictionary for word meanings and thesaurus. We maintain the most comprehensive and authoritative language portal on the web with more than 2,500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages, dictionary, glossary and reference articles.

The Wiktionary English dictionary is a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary with some 1.3 million entries with English definitions from over 300 languages. Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. We aim to include not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it.

Widely acclaimed as the most authoritative and accessible dictionary available in English, the Cambridge English online dictionaries are simply electronic versions of our paper dictionaries. The Cambridge suite of online dictionaries include, the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, English Pronouncing Dictionary and Cambridge word lists, definitive word lists for use in spell checking and word games.

The DICT online dictionary from The DICT Development Group, offers word look-ups by searching a slew of different databases that you can individually select. A more narrowly focused searched can be used by selecting Freedict's own bilingual dictionaries in the search options list box provided.

Onelook has a dictionary search capability to find definitions, find translations and search all 1024 dictionaries for over 13 million words and phrases. You can browse by dictionary, by subject and by language. OneLook also offers a reverse dictionary that lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept.

Babylon's Online Dictionary is dedicated to providing you the best selection of the dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias on the Web today. Search more than 1400 dictionaries in over 75 languages with a myriad of terms, expressions and phrases in a wide range of fields such as law, science, medicine, technology, business and much more.

Longman English Dictionary is the leading dictionary for learners of English of all ages and levels who want to learn more about English, definitions, idioms, English language usage examples and much more.

Dictionary.com is a multi-source dictionary search service and is a leading provider of language reference products and services on the Internet. We provide accurate and exhaustive definitions, synonyms, examples, pronunciations, translations, and more for millions of words for over 60 million unique users per month. We create innovative and timely products to facilitate learning and intellectual growth.

Webster's Online Dictionary with multilingual thesaurus translation, inspires to become the largest dictionary of modern language usage (the equivalent of 500 encyclopedias). The dictionary will soon consist of over 400 modern languages, and 10 ancestral languages, with some 30 million individual entries across languages (including expressions, technical terminologies, and words). The languages included are read or spoken by over 90 percent of the world's population.

We offer a useful, online beginners English language dictionary. Linguists have discovered that there are about 1,500 basic words essential for survival in any modern language. Some call this the Global English list of essential words. We have provided a definition for each of these essential words in plain language that can be understood by most beginning students of the English language. To illustrate the use of each of these essential words, we have also provided an example sentence.