Basic Reference Sources : Dictionaries

These are a sample of the many English language dictionaries in library collections.  For more resources of this type, search for English dictionaries in the Subject field  of Advanced Search screen of the Library Catalog.

These are a sample of the many foreign language dictionaries in library collections. Search for the English word for the foreign language and  dictionaries  in the Subject field of the Advanced Search of the Library Catalog. 

These are a sample of many dictionaries in library collections.  Search for [your subject/type] dictionaries  in the Subject field of the Advanced Search of the Library Catalog. 

For additional resources and in-depth assistance, see the following reference research guides:

Oxford Reference Online contains more than 130 subject dictionaries and reference works of Oxford University Press. ORO covers general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professional subjects.  It includes English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian as well as Oxford Companions and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.