Language Dictionaries (Selection)
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Special dictionaries: see the respective subject guide. Printed dictionaries: see HB 30.
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German
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Duden Rechtschreibung
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Duden Großes Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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Duden Universalwörterbuch
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Duden großes Fremdwörterbuch
- Duden online
Access free of charge on the "Duden"
- Wissen.de: Wörterbücher
with search options amongst others in: Wahrig, Deutsches Wörterbuch; Wahrig, Die deutsche Rechtschreibung; Wahrig, Fremdwörterlexikon
- Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jahrhunderts

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences; based amongst others on Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache, 1964-1977. Annotations on etymology and language usage. Listing of phrases
- Langenscheidt Fremdwörterbuch online
approx. 33,000 foreign words defined
- Wortwarte
"Words of today and tomorrow; a collection of neologisms, updated daily / Lothar Lemnitzer ... / Lothar Lemnitzer ; Tylman Ule, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Tübingen
- Projekt deutscher Wortschatz (University of Leipzig)
- Adelung, J. C.: Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart

(From the digital collection of Bielefeld University Library)
- Also available as single user version (CD ROM) in Emil-Figge-Bibliothek (shelf mark: SDA 870/31
- Das Wörterbuch-Netz

A project of Kompetenzzentrums für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften, Trier University
- Deutsches Wörterbuch im Internet / Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm

DFG Project of the Department of German Studies, Trier University
- Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache / Friedrich Kluge. 24. Aufl. 2002
Single user version (CD ROM) in Emil-Figge-Bibliothek (shelf mark: SDA 819)
- Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch
With digitized versions of the legal texts the dictionary is based on
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Mittelhochdeutsche Wörterbücher online

DFG project of the Department of German Studies, Trier University: Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch / Benecke/Müller/Zarncke (BMZ), Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch / Lexer and Findebuch zum Mittelhochdeutschen Wortschatz (Findebuch) as a database on the internet
- Single user version (CD ROM) in Emil-Figge-Bibliothek (shelf mark: SDA 870/34)
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