General Websites
- Freerice.com Review vocab, grammar, and other subjects while helping to end world hunger. It's a win-win.
Dictionaries & Thesauri
- merriam-websiter.com - It's a lengen...wait for it...dary resource. Technically, their print dictionary is a "legendary resource" according to the website. Oh, and you can sign in to the site with your Facebook account (or create your own account) and add words to your favorites. Helpful for when you can't remember that word you looked up for your vocab last month...
- rhymer.com - Need a resource so you don't get burned the next time you drop a beat in class? I could say for all your poetry needs, but I think improving your rapping skills might be more beneficial. Cause you don't want to get schooled...in school.
- learnersdictionary.com - English not your first language? You're not the only one. Merriam-Webster has a dictionary that give definitions in a simpler, easy-to-understand format. Hint: Sometimes when the normal dictionary spits out a definition I don't understand, this dictionary's got my back.
- dictionary.com - Find the meaning of words, not just the definitions.
- thesaurus.com - No, it's not a dinosaur; just a database of synonyms and antonyms of words. So...what's another word for "thesaurus"?
- collinsdictionary.com - From HarperCollins Publishing "pioneers in dictionary publishing since 1819"
- thefreedictionary.com - Yeah, it really is free.
- macmillandictionary.com - "You don't have to work at Macmillan to write a dictionary entry. Our Open Dictionary welcomes contributions from lovers of English throughout the world."
- dictionary.cambridge.org - Need a more...prestigious dictionary? Mmm, quite. It offers British English, American English, Business English, Learner's English, Essential British English, and Essential American English definitions. Cambridge University Press Dictionary also has a translating dictionary...for all your English to Turkish needs.
- oed.com - The Oxford English Dictionary...need I say more? I do? They are "the definitive record of the English language" with "more than 600,000 words over a thousand years".
- oxforddictionaries.com - The world's most trusted dictionaries.
- urbandictionary.com - Not down with all the ever-changing lingo? No worries, it's chill. It's all gravy. It's all Gucci.
Homographs, Homonyms, and Homophones
English is a very confusing language because it takes words
from different languages and applies its own rules to it. In other cases English has kept old rules
that are not used anymore expect in the one case. Merriam-Webster's online dictionary helps explain these confusions.
In English we have:
Homographs: one of two or more words spelled alike but different in meaning or derivation or pronunciation (as the bow of a ship, a bow and arrow) Homonyms: one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning (as the noun quail and the verb quail) Homophones: one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling (as the words to, too, and two) |
Here are some resources to help you:
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