Parkland Library | Dictionaries and Thesauri

A collection of useful websites for locating the meanings of words, legal-medical-business terms, words with similar meanings and word origins.

Dictionary.com
Useful for locating definitions and thesaurus words.

Dictionary of Common Medical Terms
Site hosted by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Locate the etiology of words and phrases using this source.

Everyone’s Legal Dictionary
Produced by Nolo Books. Plain-English definitions for over a thousand legal terms, from the common to the bizarre.

Glossary of Business Terms
A comprehensive A-to-Z alphabetical listing of over 8,000 financial terms. Site hosted by CNN Money.

iLoveLanguages
iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2000 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer.

Information Please Dictionary
Dictionary Search gives you access to more than 125,000 entries

Internet Encyclopedia
Search online encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and almanacs for the meaning of a word.

Investor Words
A comprehensive glossary of financial terms that can be browsed by investment subject.

Law Dictionaries and Citation Guides
Produced by Emory University.

Law.com Legal Dictionary
You can look up the meaning of legal terms, words or reverse search a definition to determine the appropriate legal term of word.

Medical Dictionary
Useful for locating the meaning of medical terms, disorders and therapeutics.

Medicine Net Medical Terms Dictionary
This online medical dictionary has easy-to-understand explanations of over 10,000 medical terms.

Merriam-Webster Online
Search Merriam-Webster’s dictionary or thesaurus on this site.

Merriam Webster’s Medical Dictionary
The latest words on medical terms.

Mutual Funds Glossary
A comprehensive index of terms that are relevant for mutual funds investors.

One Look Dictionaries
Over 5,990,011 words in 963 dictionaries are indexed on this resource.

Rhyming Dictionary
Type in a word below to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more.

Roget's Thesaurus
Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus, 1911, version 1.02 (supplemented: July 1991)

Symbols.com
An online encyclopedia of graphic symbols. Uses, and meanings are discussed.
Unabridged Dictionary

Your Dictionary.com
One of the best multilingual dictionaries available on the Internet. Locate the meaning of a word in over 14 languages or browse glossaries of specific terms on business, computing cooking, crafts, finance, genealogy, health, law and more.