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Dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary- Description: An extremely extensive dictionary which includes word origins. Fully searchable.
- Access: Off campus use is restricted to Ramapo College students, faculty, and staff.
- Description: A list of acronyms gathered from many sources and submitted by users.
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- Description: In addition to searching a dictionary of words, names or quotations, this site will answer questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage.
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- Description: Contains over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.
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- Description: This site contains a wide array of reference material including a dictionary, thesaurus, translator, encyclopedia, and language resources.
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- Description: Featuring nearly 400 definitions, arguments, and essays on occult topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies, this dictionary provides detailed information on all things supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific.
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- Description: ArtLex provides definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.
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Foreign Language Dictionaries
- Description: Links to dictionaries and other electronic reference works in Spanish or English.
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- Description: Use this global dictionary to search in 275 dictionaries on the Internet. Translate from 69 source languages into 73 target languages - 400 language combinations.
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Multilingual E-Translation Portal
- Description: A multi-lingual searchable translation service. Input a word in one language and retrieve the equivalent word in various other languages; conjugate verbs; or use other features.
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Thesauri
- Description: Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index.
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Roget's Thesaurus: ARTFL Project
- Description: Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus, 1911, version 1.02 (supplemented: July 1991) released to the public domain by MICRA, Inc. and the Gutenberg Project.
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