YourDictionary is a free online English dictionary and much more. The free dictionary search gives you definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, and etymology results for your word. Alternately, you can browse the dictionary alphabetically or by related terms to find meanings and synonyms. In addition, YourDictionary provides resources to help you find the best dictionary and translation sites for French, Spanish, Italian, German and hundreds of other languages.

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yourDictionary.com is a language products and services company that maintains the most comprehensive and authoritative language portal on the web with more than 2500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages, games that build language skills, and a forum (The Agora) for discussing language issues with the logophile community. More than 1,000,000 people a month visit our website. As Editor & Publisher recently put it, yourDictionary.com "defines the state of the art and . . . is making a powerful bid to anchor the reference shelf in the new millennium."

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The Advisory Council of Experts

yourDictionary is a company based on the linguistic sciences by professional linguists and businessmen combining their expertise. The authority and academic rigor of the yourDictionary.com site is provided by our Advisory Council of Experts (ACE), which comprises some two dozen of the world's most accomplished linguists. The distinguished members of the Council provide indispensable guidance in the development, acquisition, and maintenance of the dictionaries under their purview, and help ensure the integrity of their respective areas of linguistic specialization. Members of the Council also contribute original articles to the YDC Library.