Online Dictionaries From Around The World!
Presented here is a collection of pages with links to online dictionaries in languages from all over the world, including monolingual online dictionaries, bilingual online dictionaries, online technical and specialty dictionaries, and online translation engines and hyper-dictionaries. We provide these links for scholars, students, and language-learners to help in their quest to pin down that word, meaning, or phrase that eludes them, and to further their knowledge of their secondary (or perhaps primary) language.
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Google Translate Tool - Translate text or a web page from French to English, or English to French, plus a number of other languages. Links in the page translated with the web page translator will also render in the new language.
Translated.net Online Translation Engine - Translation service with free online translations of text from French to and from English, Chinese, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, with a large variety of technical and specialty lexical databases.
Dictionary.com Translation Engine - Translate text from French to English and vice-versa, plus a number of other language combinations.
WorldLingo Free Online Translator - Translates text and sentences in French to and from English, Chinese, Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Also offers web page translation and email translation.
SYSTRAN Translation Engine - Translates with SYSTRAN 5.0 in French and English and a number of other languages; enter up to 150 words of text for translation, or enter the web address of the page you wish to translate.
ProMT Online Translation Engine - Provides online translations for French-English and English-French, with a number of other language options; also displays back-translation of the translated text.
Lionbridge iTranslator - Translate text from French to English and vice-versa, plus a number of other language combinations.
Le Dictionnaire - French dictionary with grammatical constructions, synonyms, and encyclopedia
Dictionnaire de la langue francaise - Site offers a dictionary of the French language, synonyms, conjugations, and French-English and English-French dictionaries. Javascript interface.
Lexilogos - Type a word in the form and choose queries from the Reverso, Larousse, WordReference, Collins, Google, BabLa, Mediadico, Ultralingua, Linguee, Eurocosm, and Terminology dictionaries; also includes links to a number of other French information sources.
LookWAYup Dictionary - French-English dictionary, also includes English-French; click "More" for thesaurus and synonyms; double-click a word in the definition to define it.
Dict.info French Dictionaries - A collection of free French bilingual dictionaries for English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, German, Italian, Japanese, Japanese Romaji, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Walloon. Browsable online, with word searches, and downloadable data files.
ARTFL Project: Dictionnaires d'autrefois - French
dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries: simultaneously queries Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue française (1606), Jean-François Féraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française (Marseille, Mossy 1787-1788) and the Dictionnaire de L'Académie française 1st (1694), 4th (1762), 5th (1798), 6th (1835), and 8th (1932-5) editions.
Canadian Common Law Dictionary - A dictionary of Canadian common law with translations into French, meant to serve the needs of French-speaking Canadians.
