Links to Online Dictionaries

With these links you can access free of charge dictionaries and works of reference on many European languages, as well as other languages of the world. Nearly all of the links offer the translations both from the foreign languages stated into German and from German into the respective foreign language. Useful links to monolingual dictionaries and works of reference for specific specialist areas are available here as well.

www.europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller
Interactive terminology for 24 European languages from Bulgarian to Swedish. With this database, translations are also possible from one foreign language into another.

www.leo.org
Dictionary of the Technological University in Munich: English, French, Spanish

www.pons.de
English, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish

http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de
Dictionary of the Technological University in Chemnitz for English and Spanish

http://dix.osola.com
Dictionary for German, Spanish and English, also contains the language combinations English - Spanish / Spanish - English

www.sprachen-infos.info
English, French, Italian, “Klingon” (fantasy/art languages), Latin, Dutch, “Low German”, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish

www.wissen.de/wde/generator/wissen/ressorts/bildung/woerterbuecher/index.html
Langenscheidt dictionaries English, French, Spanish, Turkish and
Wahrig German spelling / Bertelsmann dictionary of the German language

www.yourdictionary.com
This page contains links to dictionaries for nearly all world languages. The main focus is on English. German dictionaries (e.g. German - Hungarian, Indonesian - German) and German-English technical dictionaries can, however, also be accessed e.g. for the building and construction industry, disposal site technology. A number of German dictionaries are also linked directly with this page, including dictionaries on medicine and health, insurance, law.

www.foreignword.com (Main page)  www.foreignword.com/German/default.htm (German-language page)
The programme currently supports translations from 69 into 73 languages. The translation of terms can also be queried directly after selecting the source and target language. It is based on 265 online dictionaries which can be accessed from a menu. With “Translate Now” it also offers quick access to 28 translation tools for the automatic translation of sentences.

www.allwords.com
Main language English, also has an acoustic function for listening to the English pronunciation, translates terms from English into Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish, monolingual transcription of many English terms

www.dict.cc
English Dictionary

www.britannica.com
Online work of reference of the English-language “Encyclopaedia Britannica” in more than forty volumes

www.gfra.de/usfood/cgi-bin/lexikon.cgi
Food dictionary English - German

www.medialine.focus.de
Dictionary of Marketing English

www.acronymfinder.com and www.silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms
Lists of English abbreviations

www.dictionary.cambridge.org
Cambridge English-English dictionary, very extensive, with idiomatic expressions

www.m-w.com
Merriam-Webster English-English dictionary, also very extensive, also contains a conversion table for weights and measures:
 www.m-w.com/mw/table/metricsy.htm


www.onelook.com
The programme is based on approx. 700 mostly English-language special dictionaries. If a word is entered, an explanation or transcription is searched for simultaneously in all dictionaries (e.g. in Money Glossary, Science and Biotechnology, Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing)

http://tradition.axone.ch
Glossary with more than 5000 terms from the world of finance in German, English, French and Italian

http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~deschamp/www/CMTI/glossaire.html
French glossary on technical terms of information technology

www.moreorless.net/diz
Monolingual Italian dictionary for engineering and information technology

http://it.flexidict.de
The language portal for Italian

http://www.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de and http://hollaendisch.und-niederlande.info
Dictionaries for Dutch

www.mydictionary.de
Dictionary for Turkish

www.canoo.net
Contains dictionaries and grammar for German and a programme for checking the spelling (Changes in accordance with the last spelling reform in August 2006 have been carried out), 250,000 entries in the dictionary

www.computer-woerterbuch.de or www.it-administrator.de/lexikon
German dictionaries for technical terms from the fields of computers, the Internet and telecommunications

www.lexikon.ch
Special search engine for German dictionaries on many subject areas, thesauruses (dictionaries of synonyms), lists of abbreviations and rhyming dictionaries

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