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Oxford Dictionaries: German
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An authoritative German-English and English-German Dictionary.

Deutsches Wörterbuch by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
Call Number: REFERENCE PF3625 .G7
Publication Date: 1854
Begun by the Brothers Grimm in 1838 and completed (after their deaths) in 1961, this is a descriptive dictionary that includes word histories and etymologies. There is a major project to update this dictionary, but it is not yet complete.

LEO English/German Dictionary
An online dual language dictionary.
Dict.cc
A crowdsourced German-English dictionary, where users submit translations and check each others' work.