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Dictionaries: Resources

1Acronym Finder
Description: Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for.
Restrictions: None
2Credo Reference: Bilingual Dictionaries
Description: Languages included are French, German, Irish, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
3Credo Reference: Dictionaries
Description: Includes the online versions of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus among others.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
4OneLook Dictionaries
Description: A collection of more than 600 Web-based dictionaries. Includes foreign language, slang and other specialized dictionaries, e.g., reverse look up.
Restrictions: None
5Oxford English Dictionary
Description: Detailed etymologies of words comprising the English language. This online version of the venerable OED is a work in progress; hundreds of new entries are added yearly.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
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6Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
Description: The 1993 edition of the respected dictionary.
Restrictions: DePaul users only