Online Dictionaries

Available to CSUN Community

• Oxford English Dictionary includes definitions for most of the words in the English language, information on their origins and quotations showing their range of meanings from the time they entered the language to the present.

Freely Available

• A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms -- uses QuickTime video.
• Biographical Dictionary has short entries (identifications) for about 35,000 people.
• Biography.com from A&E Television, covers over 25,000 people with short, sometimes opinionated, entries.
• FOLDOC: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• Internet Acronym Server
• Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) the subject language of Medline and Index Medicus.
• Merriam-Webster Online
• OneLook Dictionaries (Dictionary word count = 12,821,741 words in 1048 dictionaries indexed as of 05/28/08).
• ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form
• YourDictionary.com (formerly Web of On-Line Dictionaries) from Afrikaans to Yiddish.