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Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Online The largest, most comprehensive American dictionary available! www.mwu.eb.com 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.” ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA 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."