Christine Burgmer | Blog

Lingro is an excellent tool – a free multilingual AJAX dictionary.  Enter a website address in the box, choose your language, click on the arrow and then click on a word you don’t understand – and hey presto – you get the translation.  Great!

You know what something looks like but don’t know what it’s called.  You know the word but you cannot picture the object.  Perhaps Merriam Webster’s Visual Dictionary can help you.

Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary.  Enter a word to find its meaning and associations with others words and concepts.

Definr is an incredibly fast dictionary.

According to its authors’, you can use Linguee.de to “search for words and expressions in many millions of bilingual texts in English and German.  Every expression is accompanied by useful additional information and suitable example sentences.”  I looked up the phrase “thank you for your” and came up with some nice examples…

I use this monolingual (English-English) online dictionary very often:

Why not make a habit of finding a new word every day?  Most of the words on the site are linked to one another.  Click on any word to jump to another page.  Excellent!