Reference.com Alternatives

Reference.com is described as 'Offers a massive online dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, quote finder, and translator (powered by Google Translate)- all for free' and is a Dictionary in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Reference.com, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, iPhone and Mac apps. The best Reference.com alternative is Wikipedia, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Reference.com are GoldenDict, Encyclopædia Britannica, Wikiless and Tatoeba.

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  1. Golden icon
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    Golden is a self-constructing knowledge database built by artificial and human intelligence with the goal of mapping all human knowledge.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Our mission is to create information on everything and make it accessible to everyone.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Word Awesome icon
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    Comprehensive list of English word tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. S3.Translator icon
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    S3.Translator is a browser extension offering automatic translations, language learning, and subtitle translation in YouTube through Google Translate, supporting over 100 languages while preserving HTML formats for text, phrases, and web pages. Features include text-to-speech and language auto-detection.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
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    Lion allows you to send a query to the German-English, -French, -Spanish and -Italian LEO dictionaries (Chinese is currently not supported) with a click of your mouse from almost all MS Windows applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Symbian S60
    • HP webOS
    • Blackberry
    • Windows Phone
     
  6. Bing Translator icon
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    Bing Translator (previously Live Search Translator and Windows Live Translator) is a service provided by Microsoft as part of its Bing services to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. QwickUp icon
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    Access all your favorite dictionaries and other lookup services in one place.

    Firefox and Chrome extension are available to easily select and lookup any text in web pages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Firefox
     
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    Multilingual dictionary. The Blueseal dictionary provides translations of words and expressions between German, English, Spanish and French in all possible combinations. It also provides a synonym dictionary for all these languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
     
  9.  3 likes
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    Client/server software, human language dictionary databases, and tools supporting the DICT protocol (RFC 2229).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Rei Publicae icon
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    In the history of our species, access to information has never been easier. That is, for sure, an advantage we should cherish.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. xFarDic icon
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    xFarDic is a comprehensive multilingual dictionary developed using GTK2, wxWidgets, libxml2, under GNU/Linux and relesed under GNU/GPL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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