Reed College Library

Reference Tools - Dictionaries and Encyclopedias by Language

Most of the following resources are available to the Reed community only. Off campus access is available.

English

• Cambridge Histories

• Canadian Oxford Dictionary

• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC)

• Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language

• Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

• Contemporary Authors

• Encyclopedia of Semiotics

• Encyclopedia of Rhetoric

• Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

• Library of Southern Literature

• Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged

• New Dictionary of Eponyms

• New Oxford American Dictionary

• New Zealand Oxford Dictionary

• Oxford Bibliographies Online - Medieval Studies

• Oxford Bibliographies Online - Renaissance and Reformation

• Oxford Bibliographies Online - Victorian Literature

• Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English

• Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English

• Oxford Companion to American Literature

• Oxford Companion to Australian Literature

• Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature

• Oxford Companion to Chaucer

• Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction

• Oxford Companion to English Literature

• Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

• Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

• Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English

• Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style

• Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar

• Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms

• Oxford Dictionary of English

• Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

• Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes

• Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

• Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

• Oxford English Dictionary

• Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translations

• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

• Oxford Paperback Thesaurus

• Pocket Modern Welsh Dictionary

• Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary

• Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage

• Walt Whitman Archive

• Webster's 3rd Unabridged Dictionary

• Year's Work in English Studies

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French

• CAIRN d'encyclopedies de poche

• Contemporary Authors

• Dictionarium Latinogallicum

• Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise

• Dictionnaires d'autrefois

• Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

• Le Grand Robert Dictionary

• Oxford Business French Dictionary

• New Oxford Companion to Literature in French

• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

• Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary- English-French

• Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary- French-English

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German

• Contemporary Authors

• Oxford Companion to German Literature

• Oxford Companion to the Photograph

• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

• Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German

• Pocket Oxford German Dictionary- German-English

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Spanish

• Contemporary Authors

• Diccionario de la lengua espanola

• Handbook of Latin American Studies

• Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

• Oxford Bibliographies Online - Latin American Studies

• Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures

• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

• Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary- English-Spanish

• Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary- Spanish-English

• SpanishDict

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Other Languages

• Acta Sanctorum

• Australian Oxford Dictionary

• Database of Latin Dictionaries

• Dictionarium Latinogallicum

• Library of Latin Texts - Series A

• Library of Latin Texts - Series B

• Library of Latin Texts - Cross-Database Search - Series A and B

• Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

• Oxford Pocket Irish Dictionary

• Pocket Modern Welsh Dictionary

• Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary

• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)

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