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 German to English, or English to German, 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 German to and from English, Chinese, French, 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 German to English and vice-versa, plus a number of other language combinations.
WorldLingo Free Online Translator - Translates text and sentences in German to and from English, Chinese, Dutch, French, 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 German 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 German-English and English-German, with a number of other language options; also displays back-translation of the translated text.
canoo.net - Includes specialized monolingual dictionaries for German Orthography, Inflection, Word Formation and Morphology as well as the German-English Translation Dictionary LEO. The specialized dictionaries for German are based on Canoo's Morphology Dictionary, which has over 250,000 entries and recognizes approximately 3 million word forms.
BEOLINGUS: TU Chemnitz German-English Dictionary - Search through more than 900,000 translations with examples and hints, explanations, synonyms, sayings, aphorisms, and quotations in English and German. Browse lists for special topics. Listen to German and English pronunciations spoken by native speakers.
Wortschatz Project - Monolingual German lexicon with information and statistics for each word, plus lexical databases for English, Dutch, French, and Sorbisch, Estnisch, and Isländisch.
dict.cc Online Translation Service - over 400,000 German-English bilingual translations, with verb phrases, short phrases and composed entries, updated through user translation contributions.
GermanDictionary.org - Free German-English Dictionary, in HTML format and with a searchable bilingual interface.
QuickDic German-English Dictionary - A simple to use German-English bilingual dictionary with over 250,000 words and idioms in each language, with pronunciations and many other kinds of information.
Student Online German-English Dictionary - Bilingual German-English dictionary powered by student-online.net, with more than 280,000 direct translations, phrases and acronyms, updated with user contributions; also includes a bilingual German-Spanish dictionary.
LookWAYup Dictionary - German-English dictionary, also includes English-German; click "More" for thesaurus and synonyms; double-click a word in the definition to define it.
Dict.info German Dictionaries - A collection of free German bilingual dictionaries for many languages. Browsable online, with word searches, and downloadable data files.
CleverTranslate - Word translations from English to German, plus English to Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean.
Pons Online German Dictionaries - Online bilingual German dictionaries to and from English, French, Italian, Polish and Spanish.
Allwords.com - Enter a word and get renderings of it in English, Dutch, German, Italian, and Spanish.
DIX Deutsch-Spanisch Wörterbuch - German-Spanish bilingual dictionary with sentences and phrase constructions displaying both languages in tables side by side.
Student Online German-Spanish Dictionary - Bilingual German-Spanish dictionary powered by student-online.net, with phrases and acronyms, updated with user contributions; also includes a bilingual German-English dictionary.
Slovnik.cz Multilingual Dictionary - German-Czech dictionary, also with Czech translations to and from English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Latin.
Leksyka Polish-English and Polish-German Dictionary - Online bilingual dictionaries in Polish-English (over 225,000 terms) and Polish-German with a large number of specialized dictionaries. With clickable special character input.
German-Georgian Dictionary - By Michael Jelden, published by Helmut Buske Verlag, Hamburg, 2001, with 16,000 lemmata and 90,000 words. Requires the installation of Georgian fonts.
Krstarica German-Serbian Dictionary - Bilingual German-Serbian dictionary with 113.000 words; also includes bilingual Serbian-English dictionary.
Wörterbuch Deutsch-Persisch - Online bilingual German-Persian dictionary with special character input for Persian (unfortunately, special characters for German aren't available for those with Anglicized keyboards). Over 120,000 entries.
Loghatnameh Persian-German Dictionary - This is a bidirectional Persian-German dictionary with over 30,000 words, with nearly 3000 example sentences, with character combinations for German characters for Anglicized keyboards.
Japanisch-Deutsches Online-Woerterbuch - German-Japanese bilingual dictionary with input in Kanji, Kana, Romaji, Hiragana, German script and anglicized German spellings.
Canoo.net - German-English Linguistic Glossary - "This glossary contains definitions of linguistic terms, which are used for the generation of links and for indexing in canoonet. A search for one of these terms results in a hit list, where the individual list members point to glossary entries and grammatical descriptions."
MathematicsThesaurus - Brief explanations of mathematical terms and ideas in English, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish, and Slovak