Dictionaries, Encyclopedias
Acronyms and Abbreviations

Bilingual data base constisting of more than 12,000 entries with special data base of chemical compound names
[Freie Universität Berlin]
Canoo German Dictionaries and Grammar

Site for learners and teachers: dictionaries and glossaries explaining German inflection, morphology, regional varieties, and the rules of the new German orthography in over 250,000 entries. The new online grammar is completely translated into English. Its interactive search function facilitates menu navigation, and there are many cross-links, e.g. to the German-English dictionary LEO.
[Universität Basel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, IDSIA Lugano, Canoo Engineering]
CAPL The Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon
German-English database for licence-free images with a German and English dictionary entry; linklist to other authentic pictures
[Washington & Jefferson College]
Dictionaries at wissen.de
Free access to WAHRIG's German dictionaries Deutsches Wörterbuch, Deutsche Rechtschreibung, and Fremdwörterlexikon; and to foreign language dictionaries in English, French, Spanish, and Italian
[DirectGroup Bertelsmann]
Digital Dictionary DWDS
"Das digitale Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache des 20. Jahrhunderts" consists of a 'core corpus' of 80,000 documents and also of a 'supplementary corpus' of 2.5 mio. ducuments
[Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften]
OWID – Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch
Lexical-lexicologically corpus-based information system including more than 300,000 entries
[IDS Mannheim]
Phraseologie
Verzeichnis von ca. 1000 bis 1400 deutschen Phraseologismen für fortgeschrittene Deutschlernende. Zu jedem Phrasem
finden sich ausführliche Textbelege aus dem Internet. Über den Menüpunkt „Deutsche Redewendungen“ gelangt man zum Inhaltsverzeichnis, zum alphabetischen Verzeichnis und zum Index nach Schlüsselbegriffen. Aufgaben und Übungen können heruntergeladen werden. Der
Internetauftritt liefert zudem im "Vorwort" zahlreiche Tipps zum Erwerb
von Phraseologismen.
Redensarten-Index / Index of Idioms
Collection and explanation of German proverbs, idioms, figures of speech, and collocations; alphabetic index and full-text search; users can suggest new entries
[Peter Udem]
wissen.de
Universal encyclopedia and dictionary
[DirectGroup Bertelsmann]
wortschatz-lexikon

Access to the body of German vocabulary with a database containing all written sources currently available in an electronically readable form, 5 mio. word forms, 11 mio. sample sentences
[Universität Leipzig]
www.abkuerzungen.de
Data base constisting of German and international abbreviations
yourdictionary.com
Links to online dictionaries for more than 200 languages, free of charge
Specialist terminology
Astronomische Fachbegriffe - Astronomic Terms
Alpahbetical online dictionary for astronomic terminology
[Astronomy Club of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium]
Bad Heilbrunner Umweltlexikon / Ditionary of environmental terms
Alphabetical index on the environment and health
[Bad Heilbrunner Gesundsheitsdatenbank / Universität zu Köln]
Dictionary of Outdoor Advertising
Alphabetical glossary on the terminology of outdoor advertising
[Pro Media Concept]
Szenesprachenwiki
Dictionary of German slang and jargon languages
[Duden-Verlag und Trendbüro]
Tourism Glossary
German-English dictionary of tourism terminology through alphabetical index or full-text search
[TUI AG]
Umwelt-Lexikon / Dictionary of environmental terms
Short explanatory entries of environment related terminology
[Bay. Staatsministerium für Landesentwicklung und Umweltfragen]
Translation
Deutsch <-> Englisches Wörterbuch/ Dictionary

Translation from and into both languages, synonyms, proverbs, quotes
[TU Chemnitz]
Dictionaries at wissen.de
Free access to WAHRIG's German dictionaries Deutsches Wörterbuch, Deutsche Rechtschreibung, and Fremdwörterlexikon; and to foreign language dictionaries in English, French, Spanish, and Italian
[DirectGroup Bertelsmann]
Dictionary German - English

100,000 words and idioms in German and Englisch; this site´s specialty: ranking of words by frequency of usage
[Universität Leipzig]
DIX - German Spanish Dictionary


This dictionary contains over 155,000 entries. It offers inquiries in both languages; accents and umlauts can be included or excluded. Users can send in their own translations. Contains also grammar and fora.
GEODic
Translation German <-> English; users can submit new entries
German Vocabulary: Glossaries
English-German glossaries by topic, annotated
[Hyde Flippo]
LEO Dictionary: German <--> English

Link Everything Online searches over 420,000 entries in both languages and gives extensive definitions
[TU München]
LEO Dictionary German <--> French

Link Everything Online: Online-Dictionary with over 140,000 entries and search function in both languages
[TU München]
LEO Wörterbuch: German <--> Spanish

Link Everything Online: Online-Dictionary with almost 100,000 entries and search function in both languages
[TU München]
PONS.eu: The Language Portal









Online dictionaries in ten languages, German spelling, text translation and visual dictionary
Reference.com - German Dictionaries
Link list for all sorts of online German dictionaries
[Lexico Publishing Group, LLC]
Terminology of official titels and functions
Translation into many languages: e.g. German government offices, names of the Länder
[Terminology Section of the Language Service at the Federal Foreign Office]








