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Type of site | 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.[1] |
| Website | TheFreeDictionary.com |
| Alexa rank |
 472 (February 2017)[2] |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | June 5, 2003[3] |
| Current status | Active |
The Free Dictionary is an American online dictionary and encyclopedia that gathers information from a variety of sources.
Content
The site cross-references the contents of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Columbia Encyclopedia, the Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, the Hutchinson Encyclopedia (subscription) and Wikipedia, as well as the Acronym Finder database, several financial dictionaries, legal dictionaries and other content.[4]
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.
Site operator
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,[5] a community dictionary of slang and other terms.
Mirroring Wikipedia
Wikipedia content is hosted at the sub-domain encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com, which is excluded from search-engine indexing in its entirety by Farlex with the use of meta tags. This is done to avoid duplicate content in the search-engine results and prevent user traffic that would otherwise go to Wikipedia.
The Free Library
Type of site | Classic-literature reference and historical news |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Farlex, Inc.[1] |
| Website | TheFreeLibrary.com |
| Alexa rank |
52,236 (February 2017)[6] |
| Registration | Optional (for personalized features) |
| Current status | Active |
The Free Library 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 The Free Dictionary and usage examples in the form of "references in classic literature" taken from the site's collection are used on The Free Dictionary'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 The Free Dictionary.
See also
References
- ^ a b farlex.com
- ^ "TheFreeDictionary.com Site Info". Alexa.com. Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2017.
- ^ "TheFreeDictionary.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved .
- ^ "Sources of data". The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2009.
- ^ definition-of.com
- ^ "TheFreeLibrary.com Site Info". Alexa.com. Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2017.
External links
This article uses material from the Wikipedia page available here. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
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