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As of July 2021, the English Wiktionary has over 791,870 gloss definitions and over 1,269,938 total definitions (including different forms) for English entries alone, with a total of over 9,928,056 definitions across all languages.
- December 12, 2002; 20 years ago
- Multilingual (168 active)
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- Wikimedia Foundation
Definitions are the core of any dictionary. Writing a definition is an unnatural act, differing from other kinds of writing. This is intended to assist in creating new definitions, for existing parts of speech sections in existing entries, additional parts of speech for existing entries, or for new entries. For improving existing definitions ...
Apr 8, 2024 · A: A namespace is a group of pages designed to fulfill a special purpose. Namespaces are denoted by a prefix followed by a colon, as Talk:color. The one exception to that is the “article” namespace, which contains the substantive articles for the Wiktionary; it has no prefix. See Help:Namespace for more information.
English Wiktionary: Contains 780,489 gloss entries and 1,439,188 total definitions. English: 730,000
LanguageApprox. No. Of HeadwordsApprox. No. Of Definitions1,516,9521,149,538818,000Aulete Digital800,000RedFox ProMay 5, 2010 · And the biggest news is that it includes a method to get definitions from the English Wiktionary! /page/definition/{term} Get term definitions based on Wiktionary content. Experimental end point providing term definitions extracted from Wiktionary content. Currently, only English Wiktionary is supported.
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>>> from wiktionaryparser import WiktionaryParser>>> parser = WiktionaryParser()>>> word = parser.fetch('test')>>> another_word = parser.fetch('test', 'french')>>> parser.set_default_language('french')Apr 1, 2024 · definition. genitive singular of definitio; Middle French [edit] Etymology [edit] Ultimately from Latin dēfīnītiō. Noun [edit] definition f (plural definitions) definition (clarification of this definition is needed) Descendants [edit] → Dutch: definitie; → English: definition; French: définition. Haitian Creole: definisyon; → ...
Of the 648,970 definitions the English Wiktionary provides for 501,171 English words, 217,850 are "form of" definitions of this kind. 4 This means its coverage of English is slightly smaller than that of major monolingual print dictionaries.
