The Lexico Brands
Lexico Publishing Group offers the following services:
Web sites:
Dictionary.com, called "the best general English-language dictionary online" by Web Guide Magazine, features the most comprehensive, up-to-date dictionary available freely online today, with more than 1.2 million combined entries.
We cover both the familiar and obscure with definitions from American Heritage, Webster's, Dictionary.com Unabridged (based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary), Merriam-Webster, a new crossword puzzle dictionary, plus more than 15,000 computer and Internet terms, place names and ZIP codes from the U.S. Gazetteer, and information on the countries of the world from the CIA World Factbook.
In addition to dictionaries hosted on-site, the Dictionary.com search links to definitions found in other authoritative sources on the Web, including 70,000 terms from the On-line Medical Dictionary, 117,000 entries from Acronym Finder and 5,000 definitions from the InvestorWords financial glossary.
Other Dictionary.com features include:
- Word of the Day Web page and mailing list with more than one million subscribers and growing
- Spanish Word of the Day Web page and mailing list
- Language Resources, which includes a Style Guide, Grammar and Usage Guide, Crossword Solver, and Reverse Dictionary
- Online word games, including a daily crossword puzzle
- An online forum for discussing words, grammar and language
- An online translator providing instant, automated translations of text and Web pages between English and a dozen other languages
Reference.com features encyclopedias from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Crystal Reference, and Wikipedia.
Other Reference.com features include:
- On This Day daily email - holidays, events, birthdays and more!
- A complete Web directory from Netscape's Open Directory Project, the largest human-edited directory on the Web
- Feature Articles - educational, fun, and relevant
Thesaurus.com features our award-winning online version of Roget's New Millennium Thesaurus of English words and phrases.
Mailing Lists:
- The Word of the Day and the Spanish Word of the Day each presents a new word every day, with definitions, real examples from published writings, with notes on word history, usage, and more. Subscriptions are free.
- View today's events with the On This Day daily email - holidays, events, birthdays and more! Subscriptions are free.
Software:
- CleverKeys is the easy way to look up definitions at Dictionary.com, synonyms at Thesaurus.com, facts at Reference.com, search the Web with Google, or shop at Amazon.com -- from within almost any application running on Windows or Macintosh platforms. Find out more at the CleverKeys Web site.
- Dictionary.com Toolbar provides easy access to our sites within the Internet Explorer toolbar