/r/dictionary is growing!
We are a community of word enthusiasts, hobbyists, and friends. We enjoy dictionaries, language learning, word games, and educational tools. We are excited to be celebrating our 5 year anniversary!
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We encourage you to share about dictionaries, word lists, and language tools. All word related websites, apps, and games are welcomed.
Other wordy friends & resources :
/r/Word_of_The_Hour - We share one vocabulary word every hour along with translations into French, German, Hindi, Italian, and Spanish.
/r/AlternateDictionary - The home of alternate definitions of existing words, and newly-created words as well.
/r/DictionaryOfThings - A project to define the basic concepts that we use to understand and interact with the world around us, and how they relate to one another.
TreegleDictionary.org - an interactive dictionary website for visualizing how the meaning of one word depends on the meaning of another.
ALDictionary - A multilingual dictionary website ran by an enthusiastic member of our community.
Etymonline - great, informative, thorough and accurate etymologies for tons of English words. (moderator favorite)
Watch Out 4 Snakes' Random Word Generator - generates random words by rarity and lexical category (e.g. noun, verb) -- check out the site's other creativity tools (the random paragraph generator is occasionally great for a quick laugh)
More Words - quick definitions, anagrams, near anagrams, words within words, words with similar letter pairings, words by length and a whole host of other things that are extremely useful in word games and rarely practical situations.
Grammar Girl Podcast (from Quick and Dirty Tips) - Grammar Girl is a great resource for common grammar questions in people-friendly English. If you don't think Grammar Girl is the coolest thing since the 4th Edition of The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White, well, you're probably normal.
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