Dictionaries

Getting higher level students thinking about how they use dictionaries as learning aids which can lead on to improving this skill and becoming better independent learners.

Something to help your lower level students get the most out of their monolingual dictionaries.

Program to access English dictionary containing over 100,000 words. Spelling aid feature enables you to find similar words. The program also displays the conjugations of verbs and the singular and plural forms of nouns. One important feature of the program is that it will give you the root form of a word regardless of which word you put in, for example, the word "was" retrieves the verb "be". Each form of the word is displayed with its grammatical attributes.

A prefix is placed at the beginning of a word to modify or change its meaning. This is a list of the most common prefixes in English, together with their basic meaning and some examples.

150 English prepositions and 370 sample sentences

Searchable Directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries covering hundreds of subjects.

An online dictionary list containing both language dictionaries (e.g. English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese) and subject dictionaries (e.g. Science, Computer and Medical)

Corrects spelling, shows definitions, synonyms, related terms, translations. Look up any word on any web page.

300 bilingual minidictionaries with 3-column presentation: Spanish, English and pronunciation. Everyday situations, specific glossaries and complete grammar.