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DICTIONARIES

ALL THE DICTIONARIES AT A GLANCE

Those related to words, collocations and sentences are above and those related to pronunciation are below the symbaloo symbol

WORD REFERENCE

WordReference.com English Dictionary including a forum to discuss the meaning of words and expressions. You can also look words up from Word Reference right here as well.

Word reference word games

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Play games with words. Shuffle: translation game, crosswords, Swapping: swap 2 letters to get a word, Hex words: how strong is your English vocabulary? etc.

ENGLISH-ENGLISH DICTIONARIES

These are some of them: http://www.yourdictionary.com/ , http://www.englishpage.com/dictionaries/english_dictionary.html
and http://www.merriam-webster.com/

COLLINS DICTIONARY

Collins: Dictionary, Thesaurus and translator: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english

CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARIES

Cambridge: British, American, and Business English. Including idioms, http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ and a blog for new words and expressions in English: http://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/category/new-words/

Phrases, sayings and idioms

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Learn expressions, idioms and sayings on this website.
You can even subscribe to their service 'A Phrase A Week' which is a free. Each week, email an explanation of the origin of a commonly-used English phrase or saying.

Wise Old Sayings

Collection of words , proverbs, quotes and sayings from all over the world
WISE OLD SAYINGS

URBAN DICTIONARY

Urban Dictionary sends you an e-mail with a free new word every day. If you want to register, visit
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
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BAD WORDS

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Noswearing.com offers a dictionary of swear words.

IDIOMS

​Idiomeanings: http://www.idiomeanings.com/idioms/. A very good website to learn idioms. Another option is http://www.idioms4you.com/

PHRASAL VERBS

Type a verb or a preposition and get the one you are looking up.
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/

EXPRESSIONS

The Free dictionary

A good online dictionary to look up idioms:
THE FREE DICTIONARY-IDIOMS
You can also get Medical, Financial, Legal, Acronyms, Thesaurus and other languages dictionaries: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Synonyms

http://www.synonym.com/ where you can find a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms.
http://thesaurus.com/ A very complete dictionary for the writer or speaker. It is not a synonyms dictionary but a way to get a list of similar ideas, and probably the most used by native speakers. Visit also http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

COLLOCATIONS

Ozdic is an online collocation dictionary
OZDIC.COM
There are also online concordance samplers that show you examples of collocations with a particular word or phrase in different contexts. Check these links:
  • www.freecollocation.com
  • http://www.lextutor.ca/conc/sent​
  • http://www.onlineordbog.dk/wordnet/en/​​
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LINGUEE

Search Collocations, words in context and their translations on the internet http://www.linguee.com/english-spanish/
For particular words in sentences go to http://sentence.yourdictionary.com
Phrase up helps you with your writing skills because it gives you suggestions to complete your sentences. 

T-rex

A quite interesting bilingual dictionary that was offered to me via email. According to Lera Domartina it contains translations of various phrases, which can be convenient to know more about the use of the word or phrases in context. ​https://tr-ex.me/

PRONUNCIATION

Youenglish

YouEnglish allows you to find many videos containing the word or phrase you want to find out how to pronounce,
Listen to the word  just using the pointer. 
http://www.howjsay.com/
Write the pronunciation of any word or paste a text on this site which is a project to create a Phonetic Transcription Converter: http://project-modelino.com/english-phonetic-transcription-converter.php?
IPA typewriter:
These links are to type directly into phonemic symbols
http://www.e-lang.co.uk/mackichan/call/pron/type.html
or go to
http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonemicTypewriter/phonemicTypewriter.html
Phonetizer
But if what you need is to transcribe words into phonetics words or even listen to English texts visit http://www.phonetizer.com/

You can even download a demo: http://www.vinidiktov.com/products/phonetizer
Some robotic English pronunciation: http://tts.imtranslator.net/NJne 
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Text to Phonetics gives you the chance to type and transcribe your text into phonetics symbols
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Forvo is a pronunciation guide

Picture Dictionary

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http://www.languageguide.org/english/ has got talking pictures dictionaries for more than 12 languages. You can get access to the English dictionary just clicking above and http://www.pdictionary.com/

EMBEDPLUS

This is a website on which you type a word and you can watch a video in which that word is used.
 http://www.embedplus.com/dictionary/how-to-pronounce-words-and-use-them.aspx 
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How to pronounce words using EmbedPlus

INOGOLO: Pronunciation of names and places

It is complicated to know how to pronounce some of them. Here is a website to know how to pronounce them. Inogolo.
http://inogolo.com/query.php?qstr=Sinead&search=Search+Names

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