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CONTENTS

  1. A Dictionary of Americanisms
  2. A Dictionary of the English Language
  3. A Greek-English Lexicon
  4. A Latin Dictionary
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  7. Answers.com
  8. Babel Fish
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  12. Bilingual dictionary
  13. Black's Law Dictionary
  14. Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable
  15. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
  16. British National Corpus
  17. Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
  18. Canadian Oxford Dictionary
  19. Centre for Lexicography
  20. Chambers Dictionary
  21. COBUILD
  22. Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  23. Concise Oxford Dictionary
  24. Corpus linguistics
  25. Defining vocabulary
  26. Definition
  27. Descriptionary
  28. DICT
  29. Dictionary
  30. Dictionary of American English
  31. Dictionary of American Regional English
  32. Dictionary of National Biography
  33. Dictionary of Received Ideas
  34. Dictionary of the Scots Language
  35. Dord
  36. Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  37. Easton's Bible Dictionary
  38. Electronic dictionary
  39. Encyclopedic dictionary
  40. English language
  41. Etymological dictionary
  42. Etymology
  43. FrameNet
  44. Franklin Electronic Publishers
  45. Freedict
  46. Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  47. Free On-line Dictionary of Philosophy
  48. Gazetteer
  49. Gloss
  50. Glossary
  51. Glyph
  52. Gnome-dictionary
  53. Grady Ward
  54. Grammar
  55. HarperCollins
  56. Harvard Dictionary of Music
  57. Headword
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  59. Imperial Dictionary
  60. Interglot
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  62. Jargon File
  63. KMLE Medical Dictionary
  64. Law dictionary
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  66. Lemma
  67. LEO
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  69. Lexicographic error
  70. Lexicographic information cost
  71. Lexicography
  72. Lexicon
  73. Lexicon technicum
  74. Lexigraf
  75. Linguistic Data Consortium
  76. List of online dictionaries
  77. Logos Dictionary
  78. Longman
  79. LSP dictionary
  80. Macquarie Dictionary
  81. Main Page
  82. Maximizing dictionary
  83. Medical dictionary
  84. Merriam-Webster
  85. Merriam-Webster%27s Geographical Dictionary
  86. Minimizing dictionary
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  88. Moby Thesaurus
  89. Monolingual learner's dictionary
  90. Multi-field dictionary
  91. New Oxford American Dictionary
  92. New Oxford Dictionary of English
  93. Noah Webster
  94. Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
  95. OmniDictionary
  96. OneLook
  97. Online Etymology Dictionary
  98. Oxford Advanced Learner%27s Dictionary
  99. Oxford Classical Dictionary
  100. Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
  101. Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
  102. Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
  103. Oxford English Corpus
  104. Oxford English Dictionary
  105. Oxford spelling
  106. Oxford University Press
  107. Project Gutenberg
  108. Pronunciation
  109. Pseudodictionary
  110. Quotations
  111. Random House Dictionary of the English Language
  112. Reference.com
  113. Rhyming dictionary
  114. Roger's Profanisaurus
  115. Roget's Thesaurus
  116. Samuel Johnson
  117. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
  118. Single-field dictionary
  119. Slang dictionary
  120. Specialised lexicography
  121. Specialized dictionary
  122. Spelling
  123. StarDict
  124. Sub-field dictionary
  125. Synonyms
  126. Table Alphabeticall
  127. The Century Dictionary
  128. The Computer Contradictionary
  129. The Devil's Dictionary
  130. The Devil's Dictionary X
  131. TheFreeDictionary.com
  132. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
  133. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
  134. Thesaurus
  135. The Surgeon of Crowthorne
  136. Translation dictionary
  137. Urban Dictionary
  138. Vines Expository Dictionary
  139. Webster's Dictionary
  140. Webster's New World Dictionary
  141. Wikipedia
  142. Wiktionary
  143. William Whitaker's Words
  144. WordNet
  145. World Book Dictionary
  146. Xrefer

 

 



ENGLISH DICTIONARIES
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Online Etymology Dictionary

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 
This article is about the website.
Online Etymology Dictionary
Type Private
Founded Online (c.2000)
Headquarters  
Key people Douglas Harper, Founder
Dan McCormack, Web Design and coding
LogoBee.com, Logo Design
Industry Online etymological dictionary
Employees 1
Website etymonline.com

The Online Etymology Dictionary is a dictionary that describes the origins of English language words.[1] According to worldstart.com “...This site is all about a love of language, and will teach you how it all began for each word.”[2]

Contents

  • 1 Description
  • 2 Notability
  • 3 References
  • 4 External links

Description

Douglas Harper originally founded the online dictionary as a website where he could share some information on books and writers. Since then it has evolved into the etymology dictionary. Referring to his meticulous work, Harper says that it has become a site for people "...who are curious about what sort of no-life obsessive-compulsive would do something like that."[3] The dictionary uses the "history and evolution of more than 30,000 words, including slang and technical terms."[4] It is described on its home page as:

“ ... a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated). This should be taken as approximate, especially before about 1700, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript that has had the good fortune to survive the centuries.[5]

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Notability

When searching for etymology, the Online Etymology Dictionary is the first result returned from Google's search engine out of approximately 8.68 million hits.[6] Similarly, Yahoo Search places this online dictionary as the first result out of approximately 5.6 million hits.[7] It is referenced by the University of Ohio's Library as a relevant etymological resource[8] and was recently cited in the Chicago Tribune as one of the “best resources for finding just the right word.”[9] Used by many authors and researchers which follow the philosophy of etymology it is cited in numerous articles and used as a reliable source for explaining the history and evolution of words.[10][11][12]

References

  1. ^ University of Ohio, Online Etymology Dictionary. Created 2003, http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/single-records/2705.html, accessed 2007-01-05.
  2. ^ Online etymology dictionary. Worldstart.com, http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/1527, accessed 2007-01-05.
  3. ^ Online Etymology Dictionary Biography of Douglas Harper, Accessed 2007-01-05
  4. ^ Google Inc., Google Search. (Search for etymology), http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=etymology&meta=, accessed 2007-01-05.
  5. ^ Online Etymology Dictionary Accessed December 31, 2006
  6. ^ Google Inc., Google Search. (Search for etymology), http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=etymology&meta=, accessed 2007-01-05.
  7. ^ Yahoo Inc., Yahoo Search. (Search for etymology), http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=etymology&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8, accessed 2007-01-05.
  8. ^ University of Ohio, Online Etymology Dictionary. Created 2003, http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/single-records/2705.html, accessed 2007-01-05.
  9. ^ Bierma, Nathan. Internet has best resources for finding just the right word. Chicago Tribune, January 3, 2007, republished by www.factiva.com, http://proxy.bib.uottawa.ca:2241/sb/default.aspx?NAPC=S&fcpil=en, accessed 2007-01-05.
  10. ^ Rudeen, Mike. Any questions?; Ask! away on the News' new blog. Rocky Mountain News, December 18, 2006, republished by www.factiva.com, accessed 2007-01-05
  11. ^ Murali, D. Big results require big ambitions. Business Line (The Hindu), July 21, 2006, Section:Opinion, republished by Factiva.com, accessed 2007-01-05
  12. ^ Whyte, Ellen. Online resources to help improve your vocabulary. New Straits Times, October 27, 2005, republished by www.factiva.com, accessed 2007-01-05

External links

  • http://www.etymonline.com/
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