Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online site offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.

Available language pairs:

• Chinese-English, English-Chinese
• French-English, English-French
• German-English, English-German
• Italian-English, English-Italian
• Russian-English, English-Russian
• Spanish-English, English-Spanish

What can you do with Oxford Language Dictionaries Online?

• Search Oxford’s authoritative bilingual dictionaries to get accurate, up-to-date translations you can rely on
• Choose the right word or phrase using contextual clues and examples
• Use quick search box on every page to find translations fast
• Use advanced search options to search the full text of the dictionary, or restrict a search to specific parts of speech, subject area, or language register, and perform Boolean searches
• Browse the dictionary using alphabetical entry lists
• Find a list of other entries that have your search term somewhere in them
• Click from any word in an entry to look up that word in the dictionary
• Get click-through explanations of phonetic symbols and mouse-over explanations of parts of speech
• Insert accented characters (or letters from a different alphabet) using a handy virtual keyboard
• Insert Chinese characters using a helpful pop-up Radical and Character Index
• If you can’t find an exact match, the “Did you mean” feature can help you find the entry you’re looking for
• Print, email, cite, or link all entries

PLUS

• Find a multitude of language learning and usage tools and resources
• Get access to hundreds of correspondence templates including sample letters, emails, and CVs and résumés to provide practical help with writing
• And much more

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