Oxford English Dictionary (OED):

  • available through DBIS: http://rzblx10.uni-regensburg.de/dbinfo/detail.php?bib_id=ub_ba&colors=&ocolors=&lett=fs&titel_id=1132
  • contains more than 600,000 entries covering 1500 years of the English language
  • features orthographic variants, definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, quotations going back to the first occurrence of a word in English
  • online version contains the full information from the 2nd edition of the OED (1989) including additions from 1992 and 1997 (20 + 3 print volumes in total); updated quarterly
  • quotation database can be used as diachronic corpus
  • instructions for use: OED online tutorial

Historical dictionaries:

  • Middle English Dictionary: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/
    • digitalized version of Kurath, Hans & Lewis, Robert E. (1954-2001) Middle English Dictionary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Bosworth & Toller: http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html
    • digitalized version of Bosworth, Joseph & Toller, T. Northcote (1898/1921) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, based on the manuscript collections of the late Joseph Bosworth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Further dictionaries online (most of them freely accessible on the Internet; also listed in DBIS):

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