Online Dictionary

[Lars Aronsson]

On 10/11/2012 09:28 PM, Lisa M. Zarrella wrote:
> It has been requested that the university library make a good online dictionary available to students on it's website.  I have thus far looked at Merriam-Webster and Oxford.  Does anyone else have any suggestions?  If you have a dictionary resource on your library website, what do you use?

If I were to suggest Wiktionary, the free dictionary from
the Wikimedia Foundation, what would be the argument
against that? By what measure is it not good enough, or
how far from being good is it?

I suppose both OED and Merriam-Webster are good enough,
but do you have any quick clues to determine if another
candidate is useless or worth trying?

Wiktionary, like Wikipedia, exists in many languages.
The domain (of the URL) specifies the language for
explanations. For example, the English Wiktionary
contains explanations in English of words from various
languages, including Italian, Latin, English, German
and many more.

http://wiktionary.org/


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   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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