LIBRARY GUIDE TO FRH 3550 - Translation - French into English

Bilingual dictionaries

• Collins French Dictionary (online)
• Harrap's French and English college dictionary (Reference PC 2640 .H2725 2006)
• Grand dictionnaire français-anglais, anglais-français Larousse (Reference PC 2640 .G735 1993)
• Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (Reference PC 2640 .O94 2001)
• ARTFL English-French Dictionary (online)

Complete list of dictionaries available at KL

The most recent

• Dictionnaire Larousse (Reference PC 2625 .L49 2009)
• Dictionnaire Petit Robert (Reference PC 2625 .R553)
   

Older dictionaries

• Dictionnaire de la langue française (Littré) (Reference PC2625 .L63). Free online access to the dictionary.
  The most complete dictionary, but only up to the end of the 19th century
• Dictionnaires d'autrefois (free - online)
  French Dictionaries from the 17th - 20th centuries, including several Dictionnaires de l'Académie française along with the Estienne, Nicot, Bayle, Moréri, Féraud, and Littré.
   

Other useful dictionaries

• The Facts on File English/French visual dictionary (Reference PC 2640 .C64 1987)
• The Oxford Duden Pictorial French and English Dictionary (Reference PC 2680 .O93 1996)
• Dictionaire de Synonymes (free - online)
   

All French language dictionaries at KL

Oxford English Dictionary
The definitive historical dictionary of the English language. This dictionary covers English words from 1150 CE to present, and provides etymology and quotations illustrating usage.

• Larousse online (free online Larousse French dictionary, including dictionary of synomyms, idioms, homomyms, and quotations)
• Le Robert (free online Robert dictionary, includin synonyms, etymology, and more)
• Lingue.com
• Wordreference.com

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