A good dictionary is one of the most important tools for Spanish students. There is a great selection of free dictionaries available online, but it's also a good idea to have an old-fashioned paper copy for your desk. 

Traditional Spanish Dictionaries

I highly recommend the Harper Collins Robert hardcover, which includes more than 130,000 entries. It lists both American and British English, and indicates whether terms are specific to certain regions of the Spanish-speaking world. Harper-Collins Spanish Dictionary
If the above dictionary is too big for your purposes, there is a pocket version by the same publishers. It includes the same features as the hardcover, but is considerably smaller, with about 70,000 entries. Harper-Collins Pocket Spanish Dictionary
If you are serious about becoming fluent in Spanish, you'll need to invest in a Spanish-only dictionary: get into the habit of looking things up and reading the Spanish definition, rather than looking up translations. El Diccionario de la Lengua española

Online Spanish Dictionaries

Audio Dictionary
The Spanish audio dictionary contains more than 700 alphabetical entries, each with a Spanish word or expression, sound file, English translation, and link to additional information.

Diccionario de español
Type a Spanish word to see its part of speech, any derivations, and a list of definitions. Spanish only.

La Enciclopedia.com
Choose between regular, visual, and specialized dictionaries. You must register to be able to use this site - it's free for 30 days.

SpanishDICT.com
Online English-Spanish-English audio dictionary, with more than 56,000 entries, about 15% of which include audio.

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