Dictionaries
English Language | Te Reo Maori | Foreign Language | Special Dictionaries
For print dictionaries look in the call number range PE 1625-1628, on level 4 of the Central Library and in Reference Collections in other libraries.
Below is a selection of links to some online versions.
English Language Dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary
Online version of the 20 volume OED.
Provides the meaning, history, and pronunciation of words from the English-speaking world. OED also offers etymological analysis and listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Language Dictionaries in Oxford Reference Online
Includes a concise English Dictionary, New Zealand Oxford Dictionary, Australian Canadian and American dictionaries.
Cambridge
Dictionaries Online
Choose to search a word from one of five English Language
Teaching dictionaries: Cambridge International Dictionary of English,
Cambridge Learner's Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary of American English,
Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms, Cambridge International
Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. From the Cambridge University Press.
Maori Dictionaries
He Pataka Kupu
"The first monolingual Maori language dictionary for adults. It describes the Maori language in its own culturally authentic terms. Contains 24,000 entries."
Te
Reo Tupu 
Encyclopaedic Maori language dictionary. Available in
Library and on Campus
Ngata Dictionary
A concise Maori-English English-Maori dictionary, which is explicitly, but not exclusively, based on Ngati Porou and East Coast dialect and idiom.
A Dictionary of the Maori Language / Herbert william Williams. 1957 ed.
Provided by New Zealand Electronic Text Centre .
Te Aka: Maori-English, English Maori Dictionary and Index.
A companion volume to the Te Whanake Maori language series.
Foreign Language Dictionaries
English- Chinese Dictionaries
This site contains a good wide range of dictionaries from sciences, technology, accouting, trade and law.
English-Japanese/Japanese-English Dictionaries
Free online English to Japanese, Japanese to English Dictionaries.
English-Korean/Korea-English Dictionaries
Free online English to Korean, Korean to English Dictionaries.
Foreign Language Dictionaries in Oxford Reference Online
Includes English-French/French-English, English-Spanish/Spanish-English, English-German/German-English, English-Irish/Irish-English, English-Italian/Italian-English, English-Latin/Latin-English and English-Welsh/Welsh-English.
Special Dictionaries
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Articles from Encyclopaedia Britannica and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia as well as Merriam-Webster dictionary, thesaurus and quotations. Additional features include news headlines, Web sites, multimedia and magazines and journals from EBSCO and Proquest.
Oxford Reference Online
The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Grove art online
Consists of the full text with ongoing updates of The dictionary of art (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001).
Grove music online
Consists of the full text with ongoing updates of The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 2nd ed., The new Grove dictionary of opera, and The new Grove dictionary of jazz, 2nd ed.
Encyclopedia of language & linguistics
Consists of 14 volumes. Full-text is availalbe through ScienceDirect.
International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Encyclopedia of psychology
The Encyclopedia of Psychology is intended to facilitate browsing in any area of psychology.
Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology
Available via Wiley InterScience
The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of managerial economics
Full text is available through NetLibrary.
Encyclopedia of applied plant sciences
Available through ScienceDirect.
CRC handbook of chemistry and physics
A ready-reference book of chemical and physical data.