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{{Infobox website
| name = Weblio
| logo = Weblio logo.svg
| logo_size = 250px
| logo_alt = Lowercase text logo of Weblio with W made blue and the remaining letters black
| type = [[Online dictionary]]
| language = Japanese
| country_of_origin = Japan
| owner = GRAS Group, Inc.
| url = {{URL|https://www.weblio.jp/|weblio.jp}}
| commercial = Yes
| registration =
| num_users =
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|mf=yes|p=yes|br=yes|2006|1|25}}
| current_status = Active
}}
'''Weblio''' is a free integrated [[bilingual dictionary]] website and [[online encyclopedia]] for Japanese-speaking sites operated by the {{Nihongo|GRAS Group, Inc.|GRASグループ株式会社}}, formerly known as the {{Nihongo|Weblio Corporation|ウェブリオ株式会社}}.<ref>{{citation|title=Japanese Language: Reference: Encyclopedias |publisher=[[University of Washington Libraries]]|url=http://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=342139&p=2302813}}</ref> Weblio can perform a bulk search on a variety of dictionaries, encyclopedias and glossaries, and return results. The dictionary facility includes ''[[Kenkyūsha's New Japanese-English Dictionary]]'' and 70 other Japanese–English and English–Japanese dictionaries with 4,160,000 English words and 4,730,000 Japanese words.<ref name=Stanford/> As of January 20, 2016, a total of 665 dictionaries, encyclopedias and glossary sites can be searched in full.<ref name="home">{{cite web|url=http://www.weblio.jp/|title=Weblio homepage|accessdate=2016-01-20}}</ref>
==History==
[[Beta testing]] began on December 12, 2005,<ref name="beta">{{cite web|url=http://www.weblio.jp/company/pr/20051212.jsp|title=プレスリリース オンライン百科事典「Weblio:ウェブリオ」のベータ版をオープン|trans-title=Weblio opens beta version|type=press release|publisher=Weblio|date=2005-12-12|accessdate=2008-01-28}}</ref> and the site began to formally provide services searching 11 different dictionaries and encyclopedias on January 25, the following year.<ref name="open">{{cite web|url=http://www.weblio.jp/company/pr/20060125.jsp|title=プレスリリース オンライン百科事典「Weblio:ウェブリオ」を正式オープン|trans-title=Weblio officially open|publisher=Weblio|type=press release|date=2006-01-25|accessdate=2008-01-28}}</ref>
==References==
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<ref name=Stanford>
{{citation|title=Japanese e-resources: Dictionaries|publisher=Stanford University libraries|url=http://library.stanford.edu/guides/japanese-e-resources}}</ref>
}}
==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.weblio.jp/}}
{{Dictionaries of Japanese}}
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[[Category:2006 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2006]]
[[Category:Internet technology companies of Japan]]