A website for your coffee breaks

2021-10-15

Cimkék: learning English

”Dining alfresco is not the best idea on a day like this.” – Dining what? Dining how? Alfresco? Alfresco is an adverb, it means ”in the fresh air” or ”outdoors”. I wouldn’t know it if I didn’t take regular visits to an amazing, versatile, multi-dimensional, colourful website...

Welcome to The Free Dictionary

On the opening page you find a new entry in the categories below EVERY DAY:

word of the day;
Daily grammar lesson;
Today’s birthday;
Article of the day;
Quotation of the day;
This day in history;
Today’s holiday;
The Free Dictionary blog;
Live searches (sounds weird?)
Idiom of the day;
and language forum.

Plus daily 1-minute games: hangman, grammar quiz, spelling bee, matchup and wordhub.

This is only the opening page of The Free Dictionary that has served nearly 13 billion visitors since its launch.

If you visit the website today you can find out what explains the cover image to this post (go to ‘this day in history’). I saved this website on my bookmark list a long time ago, and I simply click on it in my morning coffee break for learning a new word, revising some grammar, contemplating on the quote of the day or for picking up a new idiom. Strongly recommended for effortless practice and learning.

Invaluable, yet free:
https://www.thefreedictionary.com