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Germanic Studies: Dictionaries

Dictionaries

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Monolingual dictionaries

Bilingual dictionaries

Etymology

Foreign words and phrases

Grammar and usage

Historical dictionaries

Idioms

Orthography and spelling

Quotations

Rhetoric

Synonyms

Online

Bilingual dictionaries

  • LEO

    • An online dictionary in 8 languages plus other language tools

  • Linguee

    • Includes samples of the researched words used in Internet texts

  • PONS Online Dictionary

    • An online dictionary in eleven languages

  • Oxford Dictionaries 

    • Bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials (grammar guides, writing information, and cultural information)

  • The Oxford Duden German Dictionary: German-English/English-German

    • Provides comprehensive coverage of modern English and German; sensitive to cultural and geographic nuances  

  • YourDictionary

    • Foreign Language Online Dictionaries and Free Translation Links.Links to more than 600 dictionaries in 150 different languages

Abbreviations

Business German

Historical dictionaries

Idioms

  • Phrasen.com

    • A dictionary of English-German, German-English idioms (figures of speech, phrases, sayings, maxims, etc.)

  • Redensarten: Wörterbuch für Redensarten, Redewendungen usw.

Specialized dictionaries

  • German-English Glossary

    • English-language equivalents for German terms used in electronic databases

  • YourDictionary

    • Includes specialty dictionary links under specific language dictionaries

Synonyms