Farlex, Inc., Expands Content, Adds Houghton Mifflin's American Heritage Dictionary to www.TheFreeDictionary.com

Farlex, Inc., announced a significant update of its flagship website, www.TheFreeDictionary.com. The content from Houghton Mifflin Companys American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition is now available on the Internets largest reference portal.

Huntingdon Valley, PA (PRWEB) January 18, 2005 --- Farlex, Inc., announced a significant update of its flagship website, www.TheFreeDictionary.com. The content from Houghton Mifflin Companys American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition is now available on the Internets largest reference portal. This authoritative work, the largest of the American Heritage dictionaries, contains over 200,000 boldface headwords and more than 33,000 written examples. It also includes 10,000 new words and senses and 900 of the carefully chosen pieces of color art that accompany the text of the actual dictionary.

When asked about the benefits of adding Houghton Mifflins American Heritage Dictionary to TheFreeDictionary.com, Nick Simonov, president of Farlex, stated: The real benefit to our users will be access to the definitions from one of the most respected dictionaries in the world."

About Farlex, Inc.

Farlex, Inc. (www.farlex.com), is an independent, privately held company based in Huntingdon Valley, PA, offering online reference products. Founded in 2004, Farlex, Inc., provides innovative, easy-to-use reference and learning tools. Farlexs flagship websites, www.TheFreeDictionary.com and www.TheFreeLibrary.com, contain about one million pages of information from the worlds most respected online dictionaries and encyclopedias.

About TheFreeDictionary.com

Launched in the spring of 2003, www.TheFreeDictionary.com has quickly grown to become the largest reference portal on the Internet. TheFreeDictionary.com initially started as a free online dictionary website. Today in addition to having an online dictionary, TheFreeDictionary.com also contains English, medical, legal, and computer dictionaries, a thesaurus, an encyclopedia, a literature reference library, and a search engine, all in one place. TheFreeDictionary.com has been accessed by more than one hundred million visitors in 2004.

About Houghton Mifflin

Boston-based Houghton Mifflin Company is one of the leading educational publishers in the United States, with more than $1 billion in sales. Houghton Mifflin publishes textbooks, instructional technology, assessments, and other educational materials for elementary and secondary schools and colleges. It also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning fiction and nonfiction for adults and young readers, and offers computer-administered testing programs and services for the professional and certification markets. With origins dating back to 1832, Houghton Mifflin combines a tradition of excellence with a commitment to innovation. Visit the company's website: www.hmco.com.

Contact:

Francesca Lorenz

Farlex, Inc.

Phone: 215.364.6588

Fax: 215.364.6591

business.development@farlex.com

http://www.farlex.com

Taryn Roeder

Assistant Director of Publicity

Houghton Mifflin Company

617.351.3818

taryn_roeder@hmco.com

http://www.hmco.com

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Contact Information
Francesca Lorenz
Farlex, Inc
http://www.farlex.com
215-364-6588

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