Sources for Looking up Vocabulary on the Internet

Corpora

• British National Corpus (Modern British Usage)

  • Introduction

  • Simple Search

• WebCorp (a program that uses the Web as its corpus--a little slow...)

  • Home page

• Web Concordancer (searchable concordance of texts in five languages)
  • Home page

• Google "corpus"

  • Google    

  • "Getting Around the 10 Word Limit" (a tip from Google Hacks by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest, published by O'Reilly Associates)

Dictionaries

Cambridge Dictionaries Online (provides free access to some of Cambridge UP's learner dictionaries) Dictionary.com (provides access to definitions from a variety of dictionaries) List of dictionaries OneLook (provides access to "971 dictionaries") The American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition (available through Bartleby.com) Oxford English Dictionary online (available only on campus) Etymology Online (online dictionary of word origins) Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage (can be searched using English or Chinese words) English-Chinese Medical Dictionary

The OneLook Word of the Day is

http://mail.thu.edu.tw/~benda/vocablinks.htm
Updated 12 October 2004