Dictionaries
Brick-and-mortar dictionaries have always proven themselves as invaluable resources, albeit extremely bulky and often inconvenient to utilize when they’re needed most. The web has resolved that problem, with world renowned dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster providing robust online versions of their dictionaries available to be browsed by everyone.
GoldenDict is an open-source dictionary program for PC computers that gives translations of words and phrases for different languages. It allows use of several popular dictionary file formats simultaneously.
- Dictionary
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
+7Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in 158 languages. Unlike standard dictionaries, it is written collaboratively by volunteers, dubbed "Wiktionarians", using wiki software, allowing articles to be changed by...
- Dictionary
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Android
The free Dictionary.com app delivers content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, including nearly a million words and definitions and 90,000 synonyms and antonyms. No internet required!
- Dictionary
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
WordReference is a free online Oxford dictionaries for Spanish, French, Italian, German and more.
- Dictionary
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Alfred
+5Free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality Merriam-Webster language resources.
- Dictionary
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
+2Urban Dictionary is a Web-based dictionary of slang words and phrases. Submissions are regulated by volunteer editors and rated by site visitors.
The definitions on Urban Dictionary are meant to be those of slang or subculture words, phrases, and phenomena not found in standar.
- Dictionary
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Linguee is a new kind of dictionary app for French-English, Spanish-English and other language pairs. You will find reliable translations in the shortest time, even when you're offline.
- Translator
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
Ludwig is the first sentence search engine that helps you write better English by giving you contextualized examples taken from reliable sources.
- Translator
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
+2dict.cc is not only an online dictionary translating from English and German to 21 languages. Its an attempt to create a platform where users from all over the world can share their knowledge in the field of translations.
- Translator
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+3Power Thesaurus is a fast, comprehensive and easy-to-follow online thesaurus for writers, journalists, students and teachers.
- Dictionary
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Firefox
Reverso Context offers translations in context of words, groups of words and idioms; a free dictionary with millions of examples in Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and English.
- Translator
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Lingoes is an easy and intuitive dictionary and text translation software. It offers lookup dictionaries, full text translation, capture word on screen, translate selected text and pronunciation of words. Lingoes sits in the system tray and becomes ones pop-up dictionary and the.
Discontinued- Translator
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
+6WordWeb is an international English dictionary and thesaurus program for Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android and Mac OS X. Available for download online, the program is partly based on the WordNet database.
- Dictionary
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+9Google's dictionary extension on Google Chrome. With it, you can double-click any word to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble, or search the complete definition of any word or phrase using the address bar dictionary.
- Dictionary
- Free • Proprietary
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome