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Online dictionaries

      Definitions and grammar:
Real Academia Española ****- Quasi-official dictionary of Spanish, very comprehensive but not always descriptive of real usage.
BDS - Base de Datos Sintácticos del Español Actual (search mask here). ****- Collocations.
diccionarios.com ****- From publishing house Vox. Definitions, Synonyms, EN-FR-DE-IT-PT-CA. Pay service.
El País: Diccionarios From publishing house Santillana. Definitions, Synonyms, EN/FR-ES.

Synonyms:
OpenThesaurus-ES ****- Synonyms.
Tesoro Español de Ideas Afines ***-- at Duke University. Synonyms. Sorted by category, no search facility.
sinonimos.org **--- Synonyms.
El Mundo ***-- Definitions, synonyms, EN-FR. From a Spanish newspaper. Ad-based. No support for certain browsers (Opera).

Dialects:
asihablamos.com Latin American definitions.
Diccionarios de variantes del Español ***** Links to dialectal dictionaries.
nacionesunidas.com Wordlists for Argentinian, Colombian, Mexican, and Venezuelan Spanish.
Hispanicus - Diccionario de regionalismos Diccionario de Regionalismos de la Lengua Española. 35,000 Definitions in Spanish. Book or PDF-file.
jergasdehablahispana.com Diccionario de Regionalismos.
unidadenladiversidad.com More info on regional variants.

Special:

Terminómetro Unión Latina's metasearch engine of terms in Romance languages (click on "Terminauta").
Molly & Edu Diccionario de Rimas Rhyming dictionary. 500,000 entries.
Signum: Motor numérico ----- Find ordinals and partitives for numbers.

Spanish-English:
WordReference.com ----- Spanish into English, Italian, French.
Collins English-Spanish ----- Spanish-English.
Sapiensman **--- Technical English-Spanish dictionary.

Other bilingual dictionaries:
LEO German-Spanish -----100,000 entries. Some collocations, fairly error-free.
DIX.Osola German-Spanish ----- 210,000 entries. Volunteer-based, some mistakes.
myjmk German-Spanish -----180,000 entries. Volunteer-based.
diccionarios.com (Vox) Definitions, Synonyms, EN-FR-DE-IT-PT-CA.
Social and labor terminology: ILOTERM (EN-FR-ES-DE)

Technical dictionaries: Documentation and Libraries:
Antonio Lozano's English-Spanish ----- 60,000+ terms

More links:
> elcastellano-org *****
> tododiccionarios.com ***** Links to dictionaries, grouped by subject.
> Aula.Int ***** (Aula Virtual de Traducción) Links to dictionaries for ES, EN, PT, IT, RU (click on "Fuentes de información" in menu)
> Aulex ***** Kiliwa, Lacandón, Maya, Mazahua, Mixteco, Nahuatl, Navajo, Otomi, Popoluca, Purhépecha, Quechua, Tarahumara, Yaui, Zapoteco
   
                 
                 
   

Translation engines

      Sancho Spanish web pages to English
Langenscheidt T1 Ger->Eng, Sp->Eng full-sentence translation probe
Spanish.voycabulary.com Input the URL of a webpage and it will convert every word on that page into a link to Webster's online dictionary. ****
   
                 
                 
   

Wordlists

      Hispanicus - Diccionario de Regionalismos
Venezuelan Spanish
Downloadable Caló (Gypsy) - Spanish dictionary
[PDF]
Spanish-English Word List of Computer Terms
(ok) short
Activa Dictionaries (HTML) English or German into Spanish HTML wordlists that can easily be converted into flashcards.
Basque bird names : scientific name / Spanish / Basque
Search Engine Terms (ok)
WinGlos 2.1 Galician-English-Spanish computer dictionary Hypertext glossary by Javier Gomez Guinovart and Anxo M. Lorenzo Suárez.
Glosario de Internet So many explanations it is difficult to be converted automatically.
Glosario básico inglés-español para usuarios de Internet
English-Spanish Word List of Computer Terms (ok) by Rafael Fernández Calvo. English into Spanish definitions.
Oxford wordlist Spanish 
WordLists of English, Spanish, Basque, and French translated to Occitan
http://www.jergasdehablahispana.org/shared.htm Vocabulary that is common to several Spanish-speaking countries.
   
                 
                 
   

Unclassified

      Glosario Español - Esperanto (Spanish) (ok) 
Physto.se English-Spanish dictionary
Diccionario Anaya de la Lengua Interface and instructions only in Spanish.
Guarani-German/Spanish

Tratado de Ismología Dictionnary of Spanish idiosyncratic expressions. 
Social and labor terminology: ILOTERM (EN-FR-ES-DE)
Dictionary of the Horse (English/French/German/Spanish/Latin)
Spanish-English/English-Spanish (Arizona)
   
                 
                 
   
     
   
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