The Best Online Dictionaries

English language dictionaries
Other language dictionaries

Biography dictionaries

English language dictionaries

OneLook^®Dictionaries

OneLook® Dictionary will provide links to dictionary webpages that include the word you seek. You can select different languages.
Tip: Adding wild cards expands the search (* = any number of characters, ? = exactly one character). For example, "tomo*ow", "tomo??ow" or "tomo*" will find "tomorrow".
Note: If an exact match is not found, then a partial match may be found (a wildcard in your search pattern blocks this feature).

OneLook® Dictionaries Home page: www.onelook.com

Merriam-Webster Online, The Language Center

Merriam-Webster is America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works.

The American Heritage^®Dictionary of the English Language

Other language dictionaries

ForeignWord.com - http://www.foreignword.com/
Foreignword is one of the most popular language sites worldwide and its unmatched translation tools are in daily use in such prestigious organizations as the World Intellectual Property Organisation or the European Community Translation Services.
ForeignWord.com has plenty of links to Mono-lingual and Language Translation dictionaries, including Albanian, Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chechen, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Greek (anc), Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilongo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maori, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Rotuman, Russian, Sanskrit, Sardinian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish dictionary.

yourDictionary.com - http://www.yourdictionary.com/
yourDictionary.com provides the most comprehensive and authoritative portal for language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages. More than 1,500,000 people a month visit YDC.

Biography dictionaries

Biography.com

Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present.
Tip: Search by full name, such as Abraham Lincoln. Alternatively, search by last name only.
Biography.com home page: www.biography.com/search/index.html

The Biographical Dictionary

This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
Enter Name, Keyword, and/or Date.
Simple searches (just one name or just one keyword) generally give the best results.

Name:
Keyword:
Date:

The Biographical Dictionary home page: www.s9.com/biography/index.html | Help | Advanced Search (use boolean expressions)