Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO)

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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) offers essential language resources never before available online. Attractive, authoritative, and user-friendly, OLDO has created a new, higher standard for online language tools. Available languages include: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, and Russian.

SEARCH comprehensive, unabridged bilingual dictionaries never before available online – advanced options allow users to search by geographical variant, level of formality, and even parts of speech!

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“A brilliantly designed language system that eclipses other online dictionaries” – Library Journal – named OLDO a Best Reference for 2007

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Currently featuring over 550,000 translations from the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary, Fourth Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing resources, cultural information and much more!

Currently featuring over 520,000 translations from the Oxford German Dictionary, Third Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing information, cultural information and much more!

Currently featuring over 450,000 translations from the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary, Second Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing information, cultural information and much more!

Currently featuring over 500,000 translations from the Oxford Spanish Dictionary, Fourth Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing information, cultural information and much more!

Currently featuring over 130,000 translations from the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary, Third Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing information, cultural information and much more!

Currently featuring over 290,000 translations from the Oxford Russian Dictionary, Fourth Edition, plus tools and resources such as grammar guides, writing information, cultural information and much more!

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