Online dictionaries and encyclopedias

Do you need to look up a word? Here is a selection of links to some online dictionaries and lexicons.

Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English dictionary, the definitive record of the English language.

Ordnett
Here you can find dictionaries in several languages (Norwegian, English, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portugese, and Swedish). Login with your UiT username and password (Feide). If you would like offline access on your mobile device you can download the Ordnett-app for Android and iOS.

MOT-ordböcker 
Here you can find dictionaries in several languages (Norwegian, Danish, English, Finnish, Icelandic, and Swedish) as well as lists of places, synonyms and idioms in Finnish.

Giellatekno online dictionaries
Here you can find a Norwegian/Saami/Norwegian dictionary, but also dictionaries in several other languages.

Store norske leksikon
A free and comprehensive encyclopedia in Norwegian.

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