TheFreeDictionary.com
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Online dictionary and encyclopedia |
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| Available in | English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Greek, Arabic, Polish, Turkish, Russian |
| Owner | Farlex, Inc. |
| Website | TheFreeDictionary.com |
| Alexa rank |
 472 (February 2017[update]) |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | June 5, 2003 |
| Current status | Active |
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Classic-literature reference and historical news |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Farlex, Inc. |
| Website | TheFreeLibrary.com |
| Alexa rank |
52,236 (February 2017[update]) |
| Registration | Optional (for personalized features) |
| Current status | Active |
TheFreeDictionary.com is an American online dictionary and encyclopedia that gathers information from a variety of sources.
The site cross-references the contents of the The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Columbia Encyclopedia, the Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, the Hutchinson Encyclopedia (subscription) and , as well as the Acronym Finder database, several financial dictionaries, legal dictionaries and other content.
It has a feature that allows a user to preview an article while positioning the mouse cursor over a link. One can also double click on any word and look it up in the dictionary.
The site is run by Farlex, Inc., located in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania.
Farlex also maintains a companion title, TheFreeLibrary.com, an online library of out-of-copyright classic books and a collection of periodicals of over two million articles dating back to 1984, and definition-of.com, a community dictionary of slang and other terms.
TheFreeLibrary.com is a free reference website that offers full-text versions of classic literary works by hundreds of authors. It is also a news aggregator, offering articles from a large collection of periodicals containing over four million articles dating back to 1984. Newly published articles are added to the site daily. The site comprises a selection of articles from open-access journals that can in many cases also be found on a journal's own website.
It is a sister site to TheFreeDictionary.com and usage examples in the form of "references in classic literature" taken from the site's collection are used on TheFreeDictionary.com's definition pages. In addition, double-clicking on a word in the site's collection of reference materials brings up the word's definition on TheFreeDictionary.com.
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