Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Special Dictionaries (visual, rhyming, etc.)
• World Languages

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Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
Una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales, para los grados primarios y secundarios. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte. Details
Subscription purchased with funding from suburban Hennepin County property taxes.

Encylopædia Britannica Online
An in-depth encyclopedia of information covering a wide variety of topics and people. Details
Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Grolier Online
Search all of HCL's Grolier databases simultaneously or individually from this aggregated site. Includes Lands and Peoples, New Book of Popular Science and Amazing Animals of the World. Details
Subscription purchased with funding from suburban Hennepin County property taxes.

Lands & Peoples
Information about people, geography, economy, language, culture, and history. Lands & Peoples books online. Details
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Oxford English Dictionary Online
Find the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words. Details
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Websites

Symbols.com 

An encyclopedia about the history and meaning of Western symbols.   Search by graphics or by text. more
http://www.symbols.com/

Encyclopedia Mythica 
An encyclopedia of folklore, legends, religion and mythology.  Browse by region of the world or search by areas of ...more
http://www.pantheon.org/

Acronym Finder 

Find out what initials, abrreviations and acronyms stand for.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

WordReference Online Language Dictionaries 
Bilingual dictionaries for Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese. 
http://www.wordreference.com/

Definr 

An incredibly fast dictionary that suggests words as you type. 

http://definr.com

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Last updated: Nov. 16, 2009
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