Ordnett Explained

Language:Norwegian
English
Launched:2004
Type:Reference work
Online dictionary
Country:Norway
Registration:Paywall
Owner:Norwegian: [[Kunnskapsforlaget]]|italic=no

Ordnett is a Norwegian online dictionary service,[1] published and maintained by Norwegian: [[Kunnskapsforlaget]]|italic=no, a privately held publishing house. Ordnett offers access to 50 dictionaries, covering 11 languages. This makes it the largest, commercially available dictionary database in Norway. Thirteen of the dictionaries are either oneway or twoway English (with Norwegian being the opposite language), including 3 publications from Oxford University Press.

Ordnett is available through an ordinary web browser. It is a subscription based service, offering annual or monthly subscriptions.

Dictionaries

History

Ordnett.no was launched in April 2004. In December 2007 Ordnett was made available as an offline service, called Ordnett Pluss. Both program and dictionary content is downloaded and installed on Windows computers. Like its online counterpart Ordnett Pluss is subscription based, depending on online renewal.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Ebeling . Signe Oksefjell . An eye for an eye? Exploring the cross-linguistic phraseology of eye/øye . Nordic Journal of Linguistics . October 2014 . 37 . 2 . 252; footnote 17 . 10.1017/S0332586514000195.