Thesaurus dictionary of English
Does anybody know some?(Online or offline)
I don't like usual dictionaries, I wanna know mean not translate.
If somebody knows something like please share(:
Sorry my English.
When a single word search term is entered into the US version of Google, at the top of the results page it says something like
Results 1 - 10 of about 228,000,000 for dictionary [definition]. (0.11 seconds)
Clicking on "definition" will take me to a dictionary definition.
Arch web sites primarily use US English. Two American flavored dictionaries are dictionary.com at http://dictionary.reference.com/ and Merriam-Webster, http://www.merriam-webster.com/ My browser's javascript blocker and ad blocker are very busy at the Merriam-Webster site.
For a more British-flavoured dictionary, try http://dictionary.cambridge.org/.
There is also WordWeb, http://wordweb.info/free/, a very good free application for MS Windows, but I don't know if it will run using Wine.
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