Dictionaries

Combined access to 18 concise and pocket sized bilingual dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. Provides translations between English and seven other languages: French, German, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Modern Welsh. Includes specialized dictionaries for business related terms in French and Spanish.

Includes latest editions of reference works published in recent years.

Provides over 12,000 entries and covers musical subjects of all kinds in an authoritative and accessible way. Includes entries on composers, performers, conductors, directors, critics, and scholars; musical terms, styles, and forms; as well as instruments, individual works, performance venues, and a host of other topics.

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Online version of the Latin dictionaries listed below with links to other Brepols online products, including Library of Latin Texts, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Aristoteles Latinus Database and the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature:

• E. Forcellini, Lexicon Totius Latinitatis
• E. Forcellini, Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Onomasticon (auctore J. Perin)
• Ch.T. Lewis, Ch. Short, Latin Dictionary
• A. Blaise, Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens
• A. Blaise, Lexicon latinitatis medii aevi
• Du Cange, Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis
• Firmini Verris Dictionarius
• Anonymi Montepessulanensis Dictionarius
• Guillaume Le Talleur, Dictionarius familiaris et compendiosus
• A. Souter, A glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.

A German-English/English-German dictionary with comprehensive coverage of the general vocabulary of contemporary German and English (both British and American English, and the German of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).

Revised editon of 1997.

An interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates dynamic word maps that branch to related words. Provides a graphical way to view and explore relationships among words and their meanings.

Current edition.

Searchable online version of Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus (3rd edition, 2005), based on Peter Mark Roget's classic Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.  Provides brief definitions of words, with lists of other words with similar meanings (synonyms).

Third Edition of 2005 (updated 2009)

Fully indexed, cross-searchable database of about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Includes subject reference works in the humanities, social sciences, and science.

Includes latest editions of reference works published in recent years.

College edition of the American dictionary originated by Noah Webster, containing over 225,000 definitions with pronunciations, etymologies and dates of earliest use. Integrated with a thesaurus containing more than 340,000 synonyms, antonyms, related and contrasted words, and idioms. (Part of Encyclopaedia Britannica Online.)

Eleventh edition of 2003.

The print MED, completed in 2001, has been described as "the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America." Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available. This electronic version of the MED preserves all the details of the print MED, but goes far beyond this, by converting its contents into an enormous database, searchable in ways impossible within any print dictionary.

1100 - 1500

Derived from the highly classic Oxford Dictionary of Music, this concise edition is a mine of information for lovers of music of all periods and styles. Providing thousands of entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras, the dictionary's coverage is exceptional, giving comprehensive work-lists for major composers, detailed entries on living composers and performers, important ballets and operas, as well as descriptions of musical instruments and their histories.

Current edition