Dictionary.com
Looking for the best free online dictionary? You’ve come to the right place. With more than 50 million unique monthly users worldwide, Dictionary.com is the world's largest and most authoritative online dictionary. Our dictionary provides reliable access to millions of English definitions and meanings, spelling, audio pronunciations, example sentences, and word origins. In addition to our team of experienced lexicographers, our content is licensed from over 15 trusted and established sources including Random House and Harper Collins. We turn vocabulary expansion into an interactive word discovery experience in which people explore words in useful and creative ways that meaningfully enhance language command.
Thesaurus.com
Incorporating some of history’s finest English associations, our free online thesaurus combines the authoritative labor of lexicographers with innovative technology for one of the most comprehensive and efficient language tools available online today. Professionals, students, and many others return to the Thesaurus.com to find the perfect synonym, antonym, or simply as a source of word inspiration.
Quotes
Quotes can influence and inspire. In a key moment, everyone seeks a flash of wisdom that only a classic quotation can provide. We offer over 60,000 famous quotations, aphorisms, proverbs, and quips from sources that are classic and essential as well as surprising and dynamic. Quotes at Dictionary.com include funny quotes, love quotes, life quotes and friendship quotes. Organized by topic, author, and popularity, our quotes can simply deliver a daily dose of inspiration or complete the citations for your bibliography with the thoroughness you expect from an authoritative reference source.
Reference.com
Reference.com provides free online encyclopedia and library information. Concepts and facts are tricky to master, now more than ever as electronic media saturates the world with information. We balance comprehensive and authoritative reference sources with direct explanations and smart search technology to give users high quality, low hassle answers. From some of the oldest and most trusted encyclopedia publications to innovative approaches at knowledge-gathering, we aim for efficiency, integrity, accuracy and total user satisfaction.
Translator
We empower our users with the ability to communicate in over 50 languages. Users across the globe can quickly translate any page or word and are provided with a full text translator of over 2000 characters. Our free translations use a translation technology that is among the most reliable and relevant available on the market today, intended for both language learners and professionals. Look no further - you have just discovered the best language translator online.
Spanish
We support and endorse language learning across every language. This is why we have recently launched Dictionary.com Spanish. This dynamic product has been designed to accommodate all levels of users, from the novice to the advanced student, and offers exciting features such as Spanish Word of the Day and Situation of the Week. This cutting edge product can help users with everything from learning pronunciation to boosting your conversational Spanish. With the help of Collins Spanish Edition, Dictionary.com Spanish aims to be the number one supplement for all of Spanish academic needs.
Word of the Day
The Dictionary.com Word of the Day is enjoyed by millions of people via our daily email newsletter and on our home page. These words are carefully selected by our editors to assist users in enhancing their vocabulary daily. Educational, comprehensive, useful, and fun, these words enrich the lexicon and include word origins and definitions, quotes, audio pronunciation, and contextual usage. Boost your word bank today and sign up for our daily email.
The Hot Word Blog
This rich content offering takes word discovery beyond the utility of providing definitions and offers perspective on how words both describe and shape the world we live in. This dynamic forum examines the terms tossed about around the world and draws meaning from news-making events that surprise and fascinate us. This is a place where we explore terms relating to current events and peoples’ reactions to them, examining in detail the interactions that affect the living language that we use today.
Mobile Applications
Dictionary.com's award-winning mobile apps are the most trusted, comprehensive source for word discovery accessible anytime, anywhere. Our apps enhance professional, social, and academic lives with the ability to accurately define, pronounce and apply words in the moment. With the Dictionary.com free mobile dictionary experience, you can continue to look forward to rapid releases of top-ranked, innovative apps that promote word discovery and language learning. Look for the free Dictionary.com iPhone, Android, iPad and Blackberry apps today. Our 25 million downloads demonstrate that Dictionary.com is the best source for free mobile dictionary apps. Learn more here.
Games
Watch-out -- our brain building games and tools are designed to entertain and educate, but they are highly addictive! Make sure you have some time on your hands before exploring these fun games such as Miss Spell’s Class, Meaning Fall, Clockworks, AdLib, Word Machine, Word Kingdom. Looking for crossword answers and solutions? For lovers of cruciverbalism (solving crossword puzzles), or those searching for crossword help at Dictionary.com, our Crossword Solver is one of the best aids on available today.
