Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Internet-Dictionaries
On this page you will find the best online dictionaries. Some are downloadable.
Dictionaries listed must be able to be searched by text.
If a database is used by several dictionaries, only one will appear on the list, other popular ones are below the main list.
If a dictionary has several databases and some of its databases are from elsewhere, then those databases will not be taken into consideration.
In progress.
Main
Source languages are sub-headings, target languages are paragraph. “Searching by meaning” is excluded, i.e. only “searching by word” is taken into consideration, in terms of “source languages” and “target languages”. This resembles the layout of the paper dictionary.
Multiple languages
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://www.wiktionary.org/
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://glosbe.com/
Multiple languages, partly bidirectional https://bab.la/
Multiple languages, Amharic-centered https://dictionary.abyssinica.com/
Multiple languages, Danish-centered, bidirectional https://www.dinordbog.dk/
Multiple languages, Dutch-centered, bidirectional https://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/
Multiple languages, French-centered, partly bidirectional https://www.larousse.fr/
Multiple languages, German-centered, partly bidirectional https://de.pons.com/
Multiple languages, Iranian-Persian-centered, partly bidirectional https://aryanpour.com/
Multiple languages, Iranian-Persian-centered, partly bidirectional https://www.farsidics.com/index.php
Multiple languages, Iranian-Persian-centered, partly bidirectional http://farsidic.com/en/Lang/FaEn
Multiple languages, Pali-centered, partly bidirectional https://www.budsas.org/ebud/dict-ep/
Multiple languages, Vietnamese-centered, partly bidirectional http://vdict.co/
Multiple languages, Yue-Chinese-centered, bidirectional http://gattin.world.coocan.jp/canton.htm
Multiple languages, bidirectional http://www.kordut.be/wordsearch1.php
(currently closed) https://languages.oup.com/oxford-global-languages/
European languages
European languages, bidirectional https://iate.europa.eu/
European languages, partly bidirectional https://www.dict.cc/
Finnish & Hungarian & Englissh, tridirectional https://www.finnhun.com/en/dictionary
English & Spanish, bidirectional https://www.lexico.com/
Japanese languages
Japanese https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/dialect/
English https://www.jlect.com/
South Asian languages
Multiple languages, bidirectional http://www.xobdo.org/
Multiple languages https://dsalsrv04.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/
English, bidirectional https://www.khandbahale.com/
English, bidirectional https://shabdkosh.com/
English, bidirectional https://www.ijunoon.com/urdudic/
Southeast Asian languages
English http://sealang.net/
English https://www.pinoydictionary.com/
Germanic languages
English https://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sindar/online/germanic.html
Artificial languages
English, bidirectional https://www.elfdict.com/
English, bidirectional http://www.ambar-eldaron.com/english/language.html
French, bidirectional http://www.ambar-eldaron.com/dicos.html
(currently closed) http://movies-dictionary.org/
Afrikaans
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://woordeboek.woxikon.co.za/
English, bidirectional https://rieme.co.za/
Albanian
Tosk Albanian
Multiple languages, bidirectional http://fjalorshqip.com/
Tosk Albanian https://fjale.al/
Tosk Albanian http://www.fjalori.shkenca.org/
American Sign Language
American Sign Language, bidirectional https://www.handspeak.com/word/
Amharic
English https://amharicdictionary.com/
Arabic
Egyptian Arabic
English, bidirectional https://eu.lisaanmasry.org/online/search.php
Armenian
Multiple languages, bidirectional http://www.nayiri.com/
Azerbaijani
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://azerdict.com/
Balinese
English https://dictionary.basabali.org/Dictionary
Bengali
Multiple languages, bidirectional http://www.english-bangla.com/
Bosnian
English, bidirectional http://www.ba.rjecnik.com/
Burmese
English, bidirectional https://www.ornagai.com/#/
Catalan
Multiple languages, bidirectional http://www.diccionari.cat/
Chinese
Mandarin Chinese
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://dict.hjenglish.com/
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://dict.youdao.com/
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://dict.eudic.net/
Multiple languages, bidirectional http://www.ichacha.net/
Mandarin Chinese http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cbdic/
Mandarin Chinese https://www.zdic.net/
English, bidirectional https://www.iciba.com/
English, bidirectional https://dict.cnki.net/
English https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary
English https://www.pleco.com/
English https://www.archchinese.com/chinese_english_dictionary.html
English http://zhongwen.com/
French https://chine.in/mandarin/dictionnaire/
German http://www.handedict.de/
Hungarian https://chdict.zydeo.net/hu
Japanese http://ctrans.org/
Russian http://www.chinese-russian.com/zd/
Min Nan Chinese
Mandarin Chinese https://twblg.dict.edu.tw/holodict_new/
English, bidirectional http://www.taiwanesedictionary.org/
Yue Chinese
English http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/
English https://www.cccanto.org/
Croatian
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://crodict.de/
English, bidirectional http://www.englesko.hrvatski-rjecnik.com/
English, bidirectional http://www.rjecnik.net/
Czech
English, bidirectional https://www.online-slovnik.cz/
Danish
Danish https://ordnet.dk/
Danish https://sproget.dk/
Dutch
Dutch http://gtb.inl.nl/search/
English, bidirectional https://www.nederlands-engels-woordenboek.com/nl/woordenboek-nederlands-engels | https://www.english-dutch-dictionary.com/en/dictionary-english-dutch
German, bidirectional https://www.uitmuntend.de/
English
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://www.linguee.com/
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://www.wordreference.com/
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://www.collinsdictionary.com/
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://www.freelang.net/dictionary/index.php
South Asian languages https://ltrc.iiit.ac.in/onlineServices/Dictionaries/Dict_Frame.html
South Asian languages https://www.kapruka.com/dictionary/EnglishToSinhala.jsp
Sign languages https://www.spreadthesign.com/
English https://onelook.com/
American Sign Language https://www.lifeprint.com/dictionary.htm
American Sign Language https://www.signasl.org/
Bengali https://www.ovidhan.org/
Bengali https://www.bdwebguide.com/bengalidictionary.php
British Sign Language https://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/dictionary/
British Sign Language https://www.signbsl.com/
British Sign Language https://www.british-sign.co.uk/british-sign-language/dictionary/
Burmese https://www.myordbok.com/
Japanese http://dictionary.j-cat.org/EtoJ/index.php
Nepali https://www.englishnepalidictionary.com/
Russian https://melodict.com/
Esperanto
Multiple languages http://www.reta-vortaro.de/revo/
Multiple languages https://www.esperanto-panorama.net/vortaro/
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://komputeko.net/
Esperanto http://vortaro.net/
English http://www.denisowski.org/Esperanto/Esperanto.html
Portuguese, bidirectional https://vortaro.esperanto.org.br/
Russian, bidirectional https://www.esperanto.mv.ru/ESP/vframe.html
French
French https://dvlf.uchicago.edu/
German
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://de.langenscheidt.com/
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://www.leo.org/
German https://www.duden.de/
German https://www.dwds.de/
German http://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/cgi-bin/WBNetz/setupStartSeite.tcl
Gujarati
English http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/gujarati/
Hebrew
English, bidirectional https://www.morfix.co.il/
Mandarin Chinese, bidirectional http://myxibolai.com/
Hiligaynon
English https://www.bohol.ph/kved.php
Hindi
English, bidirectional http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/~hdict/webinterface_user/dict_search_user.php
English, bidirectional http://hindi-english.org/
English, bidirectional https://dict.hinkhoj.com/
Ido
Multiple languages, partly bidirectional https://www.idolinguo.org.uk/
English https://www.idolinguo.org.uk/idendyer.htm
Indonesian
English, bidirectional https://www.kamus.net/
Interlingua
English http://www.denisowski.org/Interlingua/IEDICT/iedict_readme.html
Iranian Persian
English, bidirectional http://www.dictionary-farsi.com/
English, bidirectional http://www.farsidictionary.net/
Japanese
Multiple languages, bidirectional http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://www.weblio.jp/
Japanese https://kotobank.jp/
English, bidirectional https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/en/
English, bidirectional https://eow.alc.co.jp/
French http://dico.fj.free.fr/traduction/index.php
German https://wadoku.de/
Yue Chinese https://www.cantonese.jp/
Jeju
Korean https://jeju.go.kr/culture/dialect/dictionary.htm
Klingon
English http://klingonska.org/dict/
Kazakh
Mandarin Chinese, bidirectional https://www.sozdik.net/
Russian, bidirectional https://sozdik.kz/
Kotava
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://kotava.org/ravlemak/ravlemak.php
Multiple languages https://www.international-language.org/
French https://www.europalingua.eu/ravlemak/Tiddly_dict_AVK-FRA.html
French https://kotava.org/fr/fr_ravlemeem_kt.php
Korean
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://dict.naver.com/
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://dic.daum.net/
Multiple languages https://krdict.korean.go.kr/mainAction
Korean https://opendict.korean.go.kr/main
Korean https://stdict.korean.go.kr/main/main.do
English, bidirectional https://zkorean.com/dictionary/search
English, bidirectional http://dic.impact.pe.kr/
German, bidirectional http://www.koreanisch-deutsch.de/index.php
Lojban
Multiple languages https://la-lojban.github.io/sutysisku/en/
Luxembourgish
Multilingual https://www.lod.lu/
French, bidirectional http://www.dico.lu/
Marathi
English, bidirectional https://marathidictionary.org/
English, bidirectional https://www.english-marathi.net/
North Frisian
German, bidirectional https://www.friisk.org/
Norwegian
Norwegian languages, bidirectional https://ordbok.uib.no/
Russian
English https://en.openrussian.org/
English https://www.russiandict.net/
English http://russian.dmll.cornell.edu/rdt/
Mandarin Chinese, bidirectional https://bkrs.info/
Serbian
English, bidirectional http://recnik.com/
Sindarin
Multiple languages https://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sindar/online/sindarin.html
Slovak
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://slovnik.aktuality.sk/
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://webslovnik.zoznam.sk/
Slovak https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk/
Russian http://slovnik.org/
Spanish
Esperanto https://www.esperanto.es/hef/index.php/diccionario-esperanto
Sranan Tongo
English http://www.suriname-languages.sil.org/Sranan/English/SrananEngDictIndex.html
Thai
English, bidirectional https://www.thai2english.com/thai-dictionary-designed-for-learners-of-thai
English, bidirectional https://english-thai-dictionary.com/
English http://www.thai-language.com/dict
Mandarin Chinese http://zhongtai.org/
Tigrinya
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://www.geezexperience.com/
Vietnamese
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/Dict/
Multiple languages, bidirectional https://vdict.com/
English http://www.denisowski.org/Vietnamese/vnedict_readme.htm
Xhosa
English, bidirectional https://xhosa.english-dictionary.help/
Zulu
English, bidirectional https://isizulu.net/
Dictionaries with the same database
JMdict/EDICT
- WWWJDIC
- JapanDict
- Japanese (Renzo)
- Jisho.org
- JLearn
- JLect
- RomajiDesu
- Tagaini Jisho
- Takoboto
- Tangorin
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