Free Online Dictionaries / Translation

There are many dictionaries available for free online. Some are purely for looking up words and finding the meanings of them and any synonyms or antonyms.

My preferred source is The Free Dictionary and Answers.com. The following are still English, but slightly different (contains slang):

Others can be used to translate words between languages:

You also get specialised ones:

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