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howjsay.com  

Howjsay.com is an easy-to-use pronunciation dictionary.

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Average: 4 (104 votes)

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Visuwords  

Visuwords is a free online graphical dictionary, linked to Princeton University's WordNet.

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Average: 4.2 (28 votes)

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Dictionary.com  

This on-line dictionary provides word definitions, plus a few extras. These include a thesaurus mode which produces long lists of synonyms (which often need to be sorted), together with daily word puzzles.

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Average: 3.7 (6 votes)

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OneLook Dictionary Search  

Searches a database of some 963 dictionaries for definitions of both words and phrases. For teachers, the additional wildcard feature is perhaps useful for work on morphology,

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Average: 3.6 (5 votes)

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Macmillan English Dictionary  

This site is for teachers and has lots of ideas for teaching dictionary skills. The most recent e-lessons and teacher's notes are archived for you to download and print. Although the e-lessons are designed for use with Macmillan dictionaries some can be used with any dictionary.

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Average: 4.2 (6 votes)

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Longman Web Dictionary  

Easy-to-use online dictionary for students. Longman now allow developers to integrate the web dictionary into educational websites.

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Average: 4 (5 votes)

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Merriam-Webster OnLine  
Web site for the popular American English dictionary. You can search the Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus for free. Access to the unabridged version, America's largest dictionary, is for paying subscribers.
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Average: 1 (2 votes)

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WordNet  
WordNet, from Princeton University, is concerned with organizing words in synonym sets and with the relation between these sets.
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Average: 5 (1 vote)

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Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus  

This uses special software to display linked words from an online thesaurus (WordNet at Princeton University). Teachers can use this vocabulary development resource with advanced level students.

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Average: 3.7 (3 votes)

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Wordsmyth  
Wordsmyth is an online dictionary of American English that combines a dictionary and thesaurus. It contains around 50,000 headwords.
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Average: 2.5 (2 votes)

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