Words without Meaning (Contemporary Philosophical Monographs)
by Christopher Gauker (Author) "According to the received view of linguistic communication, the central function of language is to enable a speaker to reveal his or her thoughts to..."
Advanced English Dictionary is distinguished from the other (paper, electronic) dictionaries in many ways. Not because it contains far more words than a conventional paper dictionary, but because it uses a radically new approach and technology called WordNet. Instead of just listing the words and their definitions, Advanced English Dictionary shows how every word is linked to another. Type in the word "tree" and you will get not only the definition, synonyms and opposites, but the hypernyms (a tree is a kind of what?), meronyms (what are the parts of a tree?) and more. You can also find a list of hundreds of trees, from yellowwood to the Tree of Knowledge, and even all words that contain the letters t-r-e-e. This WordNet approach will help you to understand the meanings of words better. Linguists call WordNet project one of the biggest leaps for dictionaries since scholars sat down to write the epic Oxford English Dictionary.
This is the result of an ongoing project to collect and distribute the
most obscure and rare words in the English language (such as aprosexia, diurnation, galeanthropy, nidor or symmetrophobia).
It also contains a few words which do not have equivalent words in
English. This version of the dictionary contains 2103 words, though it
is constantly growing.
500 Years of New Words takes you on an exciting journey through the
English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade
of the 21st century. All the main entries are arranged not
alphabetically by in chronological order based on the earliest known
year that each word was printed or written down. If Shakespeare were
alive today, he would buy this book.
Authoritative and probably the most popular Arabic-English dictionary. An indispensable tool for students, researchers and translators. Contains more than 100,000 Arabic words and their English meanings.
This is the result of an ongoing project to collect and distribute the
most obscure and rare words in the English language (such as 
