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Cool site of the Day! - Create your own home page.
What's the first thing you like to see when you open your Web browser? Personally, I "want quick access to information... Nifty!"
http://www.komando.com/coolsites/index.aspx?id=2698
October 12, 2006
"You'll want to bookmark this site (and maybe make it your home page) for the next time you need to know something!"
http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/windows/2006/10/12/the-free-dictionary/
September 27, 2006
2006 WebAward Competition: The Free Dictionary received an Education Standard of Excellence award from the Web Marketing Association.
August 22, 2006
Top 99 Undiscovered Web Sites
PC Magazine listed The Free Dictionary in their list of sites that are flying under the radar, but are useful, funny, or interesting enough to merit entrée into the Web's public consciousness.
July 8, 2006
NETLINES, Harry Brown, BMJ, July 8, 2006; 333: 102.
Looking to expand your vocabulary, want a new quotation every day, or need a dictionary reference source? www.thefreedictionary.com may well be the answer to your quest. This collection of excellent resources includes a medical dictionary, a legal dictionary, and help with acronyms. If you want to expand your horizons further, there is an article of the day, as well as hangman and a word quiz. The dictionary set up alone is worth a place in your favourites file, but there is much more than that here. This is a fun, educational site.
April 20, 2006
Matt Cutts, Software Engineer, Google Inc.,
"... a really smooth Google-like personalized home page with smooth drag and drop, easy RSS adding (including the number of posts to show from a favorite blog), and color customization. Pretty nice."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/catching-up/
April 12, 2006
The Free Dictionary was reviewed and selected an Official Honoree. It is a tremendous honor to be selected as an Honoree as less than 20% of all sites entered receive this mark of distinction. With over 5,500 sites entered this year, this truly is a noteworthy achievement.
April 10, 2006
David Einstein
There also are Web sites that aggregate reference works including dictionaries and encyclopedias under one online roof. Two of the best are thefreedictionary.com and bartleby.com.
March 23, 2006
Doug Stanley
TheFreeDictionary.com is like the Swiss Army knife of reference sites, offering free English, medical, legal, financial and computer dictionaries, a thesaurus, encyclopedia, literature reference library and search engine rolled into one.
Journal of Accountancy
February, 2006
The Feb 2006 issue of the Journal of Accountancy mentions TheFreeDictionary.com in the column Smart Stops on the Web (page 31).
Words on the Web
This Smart Stop works overtime not only to define a word, but also to give users antonyms, synonyms and two online encyclopedia results. A query of accounting returned five listings for the word itself plus links to other definitions associated with it, such as accrual basis and internal control, references in classic literature and links to related Web sites. This site's home page also gives users a quotation and word of the day, as well as a word game to enhance vocabulary.
Nifty New Web Search Sites
November 30, 2005
Steve Bass
The Free Dictionary includes nine dictionaries, including medical, computing, legal, and financial, as well as idioms and acronyms (it found BFD, so it's okay in my book).
November 22, 2005
Andrew Parker
The Free Dictionary at www.thefreedictionary.com offers more than the yellowed pocket dictionary you lugged to school every day. It starts with a vibrant assortment of quotations, topical news items and articles. I particularly enjoy the "This day in history" section, and wish I'd had access to this sort of site when I was at school.
http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=283&fArticleId=3004724
November 14, 2005
The editors of District Administration magazine for K-12 school administrators selected The Free Dictionary Web site as "Dr.Hotlist Site of the Week"