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Metadictionaries

      See also the multilingual section on this topic.    
                 
                 
   

Online dictionaries

      Definitions and grammar:
Meyers Großes Taschenlexikon in 24 Bänden ----- 150,000 entries. An encyclopedic dictionary by the publishing house Brockhaus.
Microsoft Encarta ----- 47,000 encyclopedic entries. Dictionary available as a pay service.
Canoo.net ----- Grammar info (endings, spelling, etc.)
Das Wörterbuch-Netz ----- Includes Grimm's large 19th c. dictionary.
Duden Online ----- Pay service.
Brockhaus in 15 Bänden ----- Pay service.

Collocations:
Digitales Wörterbuch ----- Definitions and collocations.
Deutscher Wortschatz (Uni Leipzig) ----- Collocations, synonyms, no definitions.

Synonyms:
ein.anderes-wort.de
Woerterbuch.info ----- Synonyms and translation into English. You can search also by inflected forms!
Openthesaurus.de ----- Synonyms.

Modern language and Slang:
Anglizismen-Index ----- (Verein Deutscher Sprache) List of English loanwords and alternatives in German.
Winders Wörterbuch zur Gegenwart Modern words in Austria.
The Alternative German Dictionary (Norway) German slang - a part of The Alternative Dictionaries collection.

Dialects:
Swabian into English Allmachtdsjenseitsgottesdoppelwecka!
Österreichisches Deutsch Austrian German and "Österreichisches Wörterbuch"

Special:
etymologie.info German words and their origin.
Udos Wörterbuch für Redensarten About idiomatic expressions. 9,000+ entries.
Tripple.net ----- German first names and their origin.
vornamenarchiv.de ----- World first names and their origin. 20,000 entries.
mein-vornamen.de ----- German first names and their origin.

English-German:
LEO German/English dictionary ----- 410,000 entries. Fairly error-free.
Collins English-German -----
Rüdiger Werner's New Dictionary ----- 420,000 entries.
DicData ----- 500,000+ entries.
QuickDic ----- 250,000 entries.
Odge 210,000 entries.
dict.cc Contains the TU Chemnitz dictionary and entries added by visitors.
TU Chemnitz ----- 179,000+ entries. Technical University Chemnitz.
Woxikon ----- DE into EN, FR, ES, IT, NL, PT, SV. Also German abbreviations.
LinguaTec's ----- 500,000 entries.
Vilim Vesligaj's German/English Dictionary ----- 34,000 entries.

Other bilingual dictionaries:
See the respective
language.
United Nations: DE-TERM Terminology database of the German Translation Service of the UN.

More links:
> ATS-Group: German multilingual dictionaries -----
> Epunilex: other German multilingual dictionaries
> German, multilingual, single-language dictionary list (Jürgen Péus)
> Martin Ramsch List of URL's for dictionaries, slang, idioms
   
                 
                 
   

Translation engines

      CSLI and Verbmobil (broken) German face-to-face spontaneous translation system
PROMT
Russian to German/French
PROMT German/French to Russian
PROMT French to/from English/German
Sbusol telnet sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de German->English or Russian->German. Login: susytest Password: susyguest
   
                 
                 
   

Wordlists

      Cronimus French/German -----
AEIOU Österreich Lexikon

Archiv der Gegenwart
LEO - /pub/comp/doc/dict
Collection of downloadable English-German vocabularies in plain ASCII format.
TravLang German Online (ok)
English-German Word List of Common Computer Terms

Activa Dictionaries (HTML) English or German into Spanish dics that can easily be converted into
flashcards.
Vornamen.com glossaries of German first names in HTML tables
Check
Jorge Stolfi's wordlists
Search Engine Terms (ok)
Kleines ABC des Internets (broken)
Wincents Windows Wörterbuch (awkward, one page per term)
Internet - Wichtige Begriffe von A-Z (downloadable zip file)
Oxford wordlist German
Arianamania.de: Redensarten German idioms

Dialects : (see Yiddish)
Mennonite Low German (Plautdietsch) -English Dictionary one word per page :-\
Viennese phrasebook for Americans Very funny. Diffic. to convert, since includes pronunciation (third 'flashcard side')
   
                 
                 
   

Unclassified

      Czech-German
Esperanto-German and German-Esperanto
Welsh-German Instructions in German and Welsh
German-Spanish?
Chemnitz Activa
Marburg English-German
Chemnitz German-English
http://germ2.uibk.ac.at/germ/OeWB/test/ Austrian German - German dic
Zeres
de+fr de-en
en-de Acronym database

en<->de WebTrans dictionary
en<->de LEO dictionary
en<->de dictionary from TU Chemnitz
The New (Revised) English-German dictionary from TU Dresden
en-de English-German dictionary by Wolfram Schneider
German. English-German/German-English Dictionary (broken)
Langenscheidts fr + de Dictionary

Esperanto-German
and German-Esperanto
Travlang's German-French Online dictionary
 
Dictionary of the Horse (English/French/German/Spanish/Latin)
Guarani-German/Spanish
Slovak + en/de Interface mostly in Slovak
Welsh-German Instructions in German and Welsh
Hieroglyphic Egyptian-German
Machaelis pt + en/fr/sp/de/it Instructions in Portuguese
Guarani-German/Spanish

Dialects:
Yiddish-Hebrew-English-German-Russian Picture Dictionary words only on GIFs :-(
UIBK Austrian German
   
                 
                 
   
     
   
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