I’ll bet you thought the Oxford English Dictionary was the largest dictionary in the world. At 20 volumes that weigh a combined 138 pounds, it’s certainly the heaviest.
But with only 291,500 entries, it’s downright skimpy compared with the
Web’s LOGOS Dictionary.
The LOGOS Dictionary contains 7,580,560 entries in 188 different languages — everything from Abkhazian and Chechen to Yiddish and Zulu. It conveniently differentiates between French and French Canadian, and Portugese and Brazilian Portugese. And it even includes Latin and Old Greek.
The best feature of the LOGOS Dictionary is that it lets you search for the meaning of a word even if you don’t know what language it’s from. Just set both “translate to” and “translate from” to “all” and search. It’ll even let you know if the word appears in multiple languages.
It’s a great supplemental tool to the handy translation sites my Web Tips colleague Sree Sreenivasan told you about earlier this week.
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