http://exploreourpla.net/languages/english/
WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications."
I personally like it because of its unique features. You may perform wild card searches (Put in part of a word and put an asterisk in the word which means replace the asterisk with any set of letters). For example, enter into the search box:abbreviat* and these are the results you will see
abbreviate, abbreviated, abbreviation, abbreviator,
This shows you words that are spelled similar and thus often may be related to your search word. Additionally, you can click on the linked word (when you actually use the dictionary)
This dictionary can also perform other searches. Search for three letter words (use m?n) that start with "m" and end with "n" and you'll get man, men, Min, Mon
That is for an example to point out its flexibility. Try it, you'll like it.
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