External links: Dictionaries

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias

Acronyms and Abbreviations   deutschenglish

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   deutschenglish

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   english

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   deutsch

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   deutsch

"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   deutsch

Lexical-lexicologically corpus-based information system including more than 300,000 entries
 [IDS Mannheim]

Phraseologie   deutsch

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   deutsch

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   deutsch

Universal encyclopedia and dictionary
 [DirectGroup Bertelsmann]

wortschatz-lexikon   deutschenglish

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   deutsch

Data base constisting of German and international abbreviations

yourdictionary.com   english

Links to online dictionaries for more than 200 languages, free of charge

Specialist terminology

Astronomische Fachbegriffe - Astronomic Terms   deutsch

Alpahbetical online dictionary for astronomic terminology
 [Astronomy Club of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium]

Bad Heilbrunner Umweltlexikon / Ditionary of environmental terms   deutsch

Alphabetical index on the environment and health
 [Bad Heilbrunner Gesundsheitsdatenbank / Universität zu Köln]

Dictionary of Outdoor Advertising   deutsch

Alphabetical glossary on the terminology of outdoor advertising
 [Pro Media Concept]

Szenesprachenwiki   deutsch

Dictionary of German slang and jargon languages
 [Duden-Verlag und Trendbüro]

Tourism Glossary   deutsch

German-English dictionary of tourism terminology through alphabetical index or full-text search
 [TUI AG]

Umwelt-Lexikon / Dictionary of environmental terms   deutsch

Short explanatory entries of environment related terminology
 [Bay. Staatsministerium für Landesentwicklung und Umweltfragen]

Translation

Deutsch <-> Englisches Wörterbuch/ Dictionary   deutschenglish

Translation from and into both languages, synonyms, proverbs, quotes
 [TU Chemnitz]

Dictionaries at wissen.de   deutsch

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   deutschenglish

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   deutschenglishespañol

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   deutsch

Translation German <-> English; users can submit new entries

German Vocabulary: Glossaries   english

English-German glossaries by topic, annotated
 [Hyde Flippo]

LEO Dictionary: German <--> English   deutschenglish

Link Everything Online searches over 420,000 entries in both languages and gives extensive definitions
 [TU München]

LEO Dictionary German <--> French   deutschfrançais

Link Everything Online: Online-Dictionary with over 140,000 entries and search function in both languages
 [TU München]

LEO Wörterbuch: German <--> Spanish   deutschespañol

Link Everything Online: Online-Dictionary with almost 100,000 entries and search function in both languages
 [TU München]

PONS.eu: The Language Portal   deutschenglishespañolfrançaisitalianoΕλληνικάPolskiSlovenščinaрусскийportuguês

Online dictionaries in ten languages, German spelling, text translation and visual dictionary

Reference.com - German Dictionaries   english

Link list for all sorts of online German dictionaries
 [Lexico Publishing Group, LLC]

Terminology of official titels and functions   deutsch

Translation into many languages: e.g. German government offices, names of the Länder
 [Terminology Section of the Language Service at the Federal Foreign Office]