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General language

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En / It / De / Fr / Es / Dut
(Def. in En)
*** Allwords (incl. usage notes & audio pronunciation)
It / En **** Hazon Garzanti (FREE, but you need to register!) (or here)
It / En **** Collins Italian Dictionary (Wordreference)
It / En   *** MSN Encarta Multilingual Dictionary
It / En * De Agostini (Scroll down and click on "Dizionario" link in left-hand column)
De / En **** Collins German Dictionary (Wordreference: The Collins Large German Dictionary © 1999 HarperCollins Publishers) (provides many examples with context)
De / En *** Pons (provides examples)
De / En *** Linguadict (by Linguatec) (512.527 entries, over 2 million terms) (does a full-text search, finding your term as part of other words)
De / En DicData (provides context)
De / En   *** MSN Encarta Multilingual Dictionary (provides examples with context)
De /En ** Chemnitz University
De / En ** Dresden
De / En * Berlin Lexikon (full-text search)
De / En * Zeres Wörterbuch Online (Select the right dictionary)
De / En *Web-Trans (Uni Clausthal)
De / En * FreeBSD (full-text search)
De / En * QuickDic (full-text search)
De / En Viamundo Taschenwörterbuch (Wissen.de)
De / En * LEO
De / En *TravLang
De / En * Servus
De / En *Pauker
Fr / En **** Harper Collins French Dictionary (Wordreference.com)
Fr / En   *** MSN Encarta Multilingual Dictionary
Fr / En *** Neil Coffey
(**Fr-En/*En-Fr)
Fr / En French English dictionary (www. french-linguistics. co.uk)
Fr / En * Recomgen
Fr / En * DicoVox
Fr / En Uni Rennes
Fr / En ARTFL
Fr / En Dico.isc
De / It *** Pons
De / It *** De Agostini (Scroll down and click on "Dizionario" link in left-hand column)
De / It * Zeres Wörterbuch Online (Select the right dictionary)
De / Fr *** Pons
De / Fr DicData (provides context)
De / Fr * Zeres Wörterbuch Online (Select the right dictionary)
De / Fr Viamundo Taschenwörterbuch (Wissen.de)
Fr / It *** De Agostini (Scroll down and click on "Dizionario" link in left-hand column)
Es / En **** Collins Concise Spanish Dictionary (Wordreference)
Es / En Diccionarios
Es / En   *** MSN Encarta Multilingual Dictionary
Es / En Activa
Es / En Al Cielo
Es / En Spanishdict
Es / Fr Diccionarios
Es / It *** De Agostini (Scroll down and click on "Dizionario" link in left-hand column)
Pt / En ** Porto Editora
Pt / En * Michaelis
Pt / En Dicionário Universal Português/Inglês
Pt / Fr ** Porto Editora
Pt / Fr * Michaelis
Pt / Fr Dicionário Universal Português/Francês
Pt / Es * Michaelis
Pt / Es * Laenciclopedia - diccionario Portugués Español
Es / Pt * Laenciclopedia - diccionario Portugués Español
Pt / It * Michaelis
De / Es *** Pons
De / Es * Zeres Wörterbuch Online (Select the right dictionary)
De / Es * Pauker
De / Es Activa
De / Es Viamundo Taschenwörterbuch (Wissen.de)
Pt / De * Michaelis
Ro / En Romanian
De / En / Es / It / Fr EP Unilex
De-En / It / Fr / Es Wissen
Many versions TravLang
En / Many Ectaco
Tk / many Hazar.com

Dialects

CH It / It Vocabolario di dialetto ticinese (or here)
CH It / It Il lessico italiano in Svizzera
CH De / De Pauker Dictionary of Swiss German terms (keywords: Schweizer Deutsch, Schwyzerdütsch)
CH De / De Schweizerdialekt (CH De-De / De-CH De) (keywords: Schweizer Dialektwörter, Schweizerdeutsch Dialektwörter)
CH De / De Schweizerdeutsch Alltag
CH De / De Helvetismen (short list)
CH De / De Züridüdsch
CH De / De Züridütsch
CH De / De Berndeutsches Wörterbuch
CH De / De Auswahl Schweizer Dialektwörter
CH De / De The Alternative Swiss German Dictionary
AT De / De Austrian German dictionary (Österreichisches Deutsch / Österreichisches Wörterbuch)
AT De / De Austrian German (short list)
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Neologisms

En / Fr (Def. in Fr) Colba.net (Le petit Dico de la francophonie de NiouZeNet; French neologisms and English etc. words from which they are derived)

Usage (words in context) / Corpuses

Fr / En ***Rali i17.gif (258 bytes) (Canadian Hansard Corpus)
De / En **Langenscheidt Translation Memory i17.gif (258 bytes) (or here, then select "Test it!/T1 4.0". Scroll down and select "Langenscheidts T1 Übersetzungsarchiv".)
Use CTRL-F to search the results page.
De / En / It / Fr / Es Institution für Translationswissenschaft i17.gif (258 bytes)
Many versions Virgilio

False friends

It / En Infotrad Italian False Friends (or here)

Proverbs

En / Es / Lat / Bas Gotzon Garate

Acronyms and abbreviations
(see also specialised fields)

De / En * Dresden
De / En ** Berlin
It (incl. En long form) Sigle e Abbreviazioni Usate in Italia
Many ABbreviation Compass i17.gif (258 bytes)

 

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