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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
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Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
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| A growing collection of full text reference works including dictionaries, encyclopedias, gazetteers, and style manuals in addition to works of poetry, folk and fairy tales, essays, and classic fiction. |
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CultureGrams
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| Search for information about the history, daily life, and customs of world cultures. Each report includes cultural and geographical information, history, maps, flags, fun facts, and audio files. A library card is needed to use this resource from home. |
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Encyclopedia.com
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| Encyclopedia.com has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations. |
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Fact Monster Dictionary
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| Definitions of thousands of words and games and links for word lovers. |
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Fact Monster Encyclopedia
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| Access articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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Free Dictionary
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| Online dictionary containing over 260,000 entries, the main source being American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. |
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Merriam-Webster World Central
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| Look up words in the student dictionary, build your own dictionary, read about the daily buzzword, and play games. |
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Worldbook Kids
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| Search for articles, pictures, maps, and definitions. Hands-on actitivies, puzzles, and exercises for elementary school students and teachers are also available. You'll need a library card to use Worldbook Kids from home. |
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Your Dictionary
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| Provides an easy-to-use search engine for words and the results are quite detailed. Also offers 400 different language dictionaries. |
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