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Online dictionaries

Dictionaries include:

  • A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (2 ed.)
  • Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms (3 ed.)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (3 ed.)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

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