The free Dictionary by Farlex

This free dictionary by Farlex is not a common dictionary. It also contains an Encyclopaedia and a *Thesaurus

It is available for everybody in this web direction: Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary

* “a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning containing synonyms  and sometimes antonyms, in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations.”)

The main source of TheFreeDictionary’s general English dictionary is Houghton Mifflin’s premier dictionary, the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.

This authoritative work is the largest of the American Heritage® dictionaries and contains over 200,000 boldface terms and more than 33,000 written examples.

The Fourth Edition also incorporates more than 10,000 new words.

Containing 260,000 entries, the general dictionary is augmented with Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, and is enhanced by 30,000 illustrations, an audio pronunciation feature, etymologies, abbreviations, biographical entries, and more.

Definitions are accompanied by usage examples from classic works of literature, courtesy of The Free Library.

Translations to Spanish, French, German, and Italian are provided by Harper Collins and feature contemporary vocabulary and expressions

Including everyday terms relating to business, computing, current events, tourism and many other topics.

This dictionary is very complete and it has a lot of different applications related with the vocabulary.

•Word lookup for browser•Word of the day•Add to Google toolbar•Add to My Yahoo®•Add to my favourites•Help•Feedback

Free content for websitesLinking to the DictionaryDictionary lookup boxScript word lookupPartner with us

hangman (it helps you to enrich your vocabulary )

match up  (helpful with the synonyms) “Match each word in the left column with its synonym on the right. When finished, click Answer to see the results”

This applications is divided in :

-Free:

Medical dictionayLegal dictionaryFinancial dictionaryAcronymsIdiomsEncyclopaediaWikipedia encyclopaedia

For Suscription:Hutchinson Encyclopedia

You can also look up for articles apart from words and if you do not remember exactly what you are trying to find you have the chance to search it by writing “starts with”, “ends with” and “text”.

-More Languages: Spanish dictionary German Dictionary French Dictionary Italian Dictionary Arabic Dictionary Chinese Dictionary (S) Polish Dictionary Portuguese Dictionary Dutch Dictionary Norwegian Dictionary Greek Dictionary Russian Dictionary Turkish Dictionary

TheFreeDictionary.com now allows you to create your own personal homepage by adding and removing, dragging and dropping, and “using or losing” existing content windows. In addition, you can add your own bookmarks, weather information, horoscope, and RSS feeds from anywhere on the web.

When entering The Frre Dictionary’s home page we have the chance to read the article of the day, to read what is on the news today, how important is today’s date (this day in history and today’s birthday), to read our Horoscope and the quotation of the day which is a very famous sentence of the day form an important character of the history and of course the weather. All of them very helpful, but as it has been mentioned above all these applications can be modified.

the article of the day

the news today

this day in history

today’s birthday

Horoscope

quotation of the day a very famous sentence from an important character of the history

the weather