French-English Dictionaries
- Lexibase Intranet / Collins Dictionaries This link opens in a new window
Online versions of Collins bilingual dictionaries including: English-French; English-Chinese; English-German; English-Italian; English-Russian; and German-Spanish.
Pocket Oxford-Hachette French DictionaryLocation: OnlinePublication Date: 2010This intermediate French dictionary now has a new grammar supplement that focuses on the key points of French grammar providing invaluable support to anyone learning to speak, read and write in French.- Collins-Robert French-English, English-French DictionaryLocation: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC2640 .C69 1990 )Publication Date: 1990This dictionary contains over 110,000 entries and 110,000 phrases/idiomatic expressions. It tries to include British and American English, and Canadian French.
- Harrap’s New Standard French and English DictionaryLocation: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC2640 .H317 1979M )Publication Date: 1979The Harrap’s has a slightly British flavor to its translations, but does include American English. It is especially good at providing context for words, as well as colloquialisms and idioms.
Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French by
Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks PC2640 .H47 1984Publication Date: 1985
French Dictionaries
- Petit Robert de la Langue Francaise This link opens in a new windowA well known French dictionary, highly regarded, easy to use. Originally in print.
- Dictionnaire Vivant de la Langue FrançaiseThe DVLF, the Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française, is a new type of French language dictionary. Through a combination of dictionary definitions, usage example sentences, and linguistic tools like thesauri and pronunciation information, the DVLF is able to offer users a wide array of information about a given word.
Le Nouveau Petit Robert : Dictionnaire Alphabétique et Analogique de la Langue Française, Nouvelle Édition du Petit Robert de Paul Robert by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC2625 .R554 2007 )Publication Date: 2007
Le Petit Larousse Illustré: En CouleurLocation: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X AG25 .L25 2001Publication Date: 2001A 1,786 page encyclopedia with 87,000 articles, 4,600 illustrations, cartes, and designs. It is a popular desk dictionary.
Grand Larousse de la Langue Française by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC2625 .G7 )Publication Date: 1971Larousse is better known for encyclopedias than for dictionaries and this set feels a little like an encyclopedia. The definitions are less detailed and the phrases are fewer than those in the Grand Robert.
Synonymes & contraires : grand dictionnaire by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC2591 .S963 2004 )Publication Date: 2004"200 000 synonymes, 80 000 contraires"
Historical Dictionaries
Saute paillasse : les sens cachés des mots de la langue française by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PC2580 .D83 2004 )Publication Date: 2004- Dictionnaire historique de la langue française : contenant les mots français en usage et quelques autres délaissés, avec leur origine proche et lointaine ... byLocation: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC2580 .D52 1993)Publication Date: 1993
- Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française byLocation: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC2580 .B55 1989 )Publication Date: 1989
Petit dictionnaire des mots qui ont une histoire by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PC2574 .H46 1991 )Publication Date: 1991
Dictionnaire du moyen français : la Renaissance by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC2650 .G74 1992 )Publication Date: 1992
