Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Grammar Guides


WWWebster Dictionary - Search screen
 
Roget's Internet Thesaurus
 
Roget's Thesaurus Search Form
 
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Includes grammar guidelines, computer-graded quizzes, questions & answers, and more (from Capital Community-Technical College, Hartford, CT).
Grammar and Style Notes
By Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania.
On-Line English Grammar
By Anthony Hughes, from Edunet International.
Jesse’s Word of the Day
Weird words and lucid definitions from Jesse Sheidlower, a Senior Editor in the Reference division of Random House.
Cobuild Idiom of the Day
 
The Weekly Idiom
Depending on how often you need an idiom fix, you can score a new one daily or weekly.

The links listed above represent only a few of the available onine guides. For more comprehensive listings, try the following links:
 
A Web of On-line Dictionaries
English dictionary plus links to over 400 dictionaries for 130 other languages (from Bucknell University).
A Web of On-line Grammars
Reference, learning, and historical grammars for dozens of languages (from Bucknell University).