The Free Dictionary is an American online dictionary and encyclopedia that aggregates information from various sources. It is accessible in fourteen languages. The Free Dictionary was launched in 2005 by Farlex. In the same year, it was included in PCMag's Make Your Browser Better list. The site cross-references the contents of dictionaries such as The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Collins English Dictionary; encyclopedias such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, the Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, the Hutchinson Encyclopedia (subscription), and Wikipedia; book publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, HarperCollins, as well as the Acronym Finder database, several financial dictionaries, legal dictionaries, and other content. More information...
According to PR-model, thefreedictionary.com is ranked 614th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 572nd in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before businesswire.com and after ox.ac.uk in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
