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Re: [DSNA] great online dictionary resource

Orin & all
According to the database copyright info,

This dictionary was derived from the
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Version published 1913
by the C. & G. Merriam Co.
Springfield, Mass.
Under the direction of
Noah Porter, D.D., LL.D.

and from
WordNet, a semantic network created by
the Cognitive Science Department
of Princeton University
under the direction of
Prof. George Miller

and is being updated and supplemented by
an open coalition of volunteer collaborators from
around the world.


Paul Heacock
ELT Electronic Publishing & Publishing Systems Manager
Commissioning Editor, ELT Reference
Cambridge University Press




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Maybe other folks know about this one already but I just stumbled across
it:
easy one-step search with lots of options on a raft of obscure sources that
you
would otherwise spend yonks tracking down. And no advertising!

http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict

Don't know who runs it, but bravo!

Orin
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Orin & all According to the database copyright info, This dictionary was derived from the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Version published 1913 by the...
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