Dictionaries

Online Resources

Use our free 24/7 online reference information in your library or at home, all you need is your librarycard or smartcard number:

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online - includes
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Italian

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) - The most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world, and the definitive record of English language development over the last fifteen hundred years. Includes extensive search options and traces the evolution of more than 600,000 words from the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of souces - from classic literature and periodicals to film scripts and pop songs.

CREDOreference -
- Bilingual dictionaries - French, German, Spanish, Irish, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish
- Useful Crossword Solver
- Bloomsbury Thesaurus
- Chambers 21st Century Dictionary
- Collins English Dictionary
- Penguin English Dictionary
- Roget's II The New Thesaurus

KnowUK
- The Chambers Dictionary
- The Chambers Thesaurus

Oxford Reference Online
- Bilingual Dictionaries include - French, Spanish, German, Irish, Italian, Latin, Spanish, Welsh
- Concise Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Dictionary of English
- Oxford Paperback Thesaurus
- Visual English Dictionary

Resources available in the library:

A selection of English dictionaries and thesauruses
Wide range of foreign language dictionaries, both contemporary and historical
Subject, dialect, crossword solvers and illustrated dictionaries available in print and on-line

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