Concordancers and Dictionaries

Concordancers

Literature concordance program for Works of Literature

General texts concordance program for searching general texts (newspapers, magazines, etc.)

The Web as a Corpus. Use this concordance program to search the entire Web!

Cobuild: "Bank of English," plus dictionary and vocabulary activities

The Compleat Lexical Tutor. Search texts, find collocations and link to an on-line dictionary.

Dictionaries

One Look: search for definitions and other information from many dictionaries at once

Wordsmyth: electronic dictionary with thesaurus

Cambridge Dictionary: most words have one or more example sentences

Dictionary.com: definitions; fund and games; translator and more

Hyper Dictionary: definitions, sentence, link to a thesaurus

Merriam-Webster: definitions, sentences, and listen to the word

Bartleby: search for words as they occur in various texts

Allwords.com: search, translate, and listen

Wordnet: words, definitions, sentences and most frequent synonyms

Word Profiler: paste in a text and find out how frequently the words are used

The Compleate Lexical Tutor (MacIntosh version) You can find examples of a word in many contexts and get dictionary information.