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Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Online
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The Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Online is the perfect resource for students and
adults interested in expanding their knowledge and understanding the English language. With over 470,000
entries and 140,000 word etymologies, this interactive dictionary offers users the ultimate unabridged vocabulary
experience.
A vast array of search options will allow users to search for definitions and spelling as well as etymologies,
rhymes, and puzzle answers, and build and execute complex searches involving a wide variety of options.
Highlights include:
Main entry
Verbal illustration
Starts with & Ends with
Students can use main entry searches to look
up any word that normally appears in
boldface type in the dictionary; this is the
type of search that is most similar to looking
up a word in a print dictionary.
Students often can gain a better
understanding of what a word means by
seeing it used in sentences, phrases, or
quotations. In addition to the example that
appears with an entry word, students can
search for other examples of how a word is
used.
If students want to find words that start
with or end with the same characters, this
search can be very helpful. Enter these
characters and the results will return all
entries that begin or end with these
characters.
Synonymy paragraph
Homophones are words that sound alike,
but they are often spelled differently. For
example, "to," "too," and "two" are
homophones. This search can help students
find homophones for a given word.
Etymology
Etymologies provide information about the
history and origin of a word. Etymology
searches allow students to search for words
by their language of origin or by their old
English, middle English, or non-English root
words. For example, students could find all
the words in the dictionary that originated in
Japanese or that derive from the Greek root
logia.
Function
Function labels are used to indicate how a
word typically functions in a sentence. In
most cases, the function label is a part of
speech, such as noun, verb, adjective,
adverb, pronoun, preposition, or interjection.
A number of entries in the dictionary
include brief paragraphs, called synonymy
paragraphs, that discuss the similarities and
differences between words of closely
related meaning. Students can review the
best word choice for a given situation.
Author quoted
The authors quoted search locates
quotations by an author whose work was
used to provide a verbal illustration for the
dictionary. Authors quoted searches
always involve searching for the last name
of the author, such as “Shakespeare.”
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Homophone
Rhyme
Poets, lyricists, word-game players,
students, and others may want to use
Webster's as a rhyming dictionary to help
with their writing. For example, a rhyme
search for the word "name" will produce a
results list that includes "acclaim," "fame,"
and other words that rhyme with "name."