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2 days ago · Welcome to the English-language Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. It aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English.
Wiktionary. English 8,136,000+ entries. Русский 1 369 000+ статей. Français 6 418 000+ entrées. မြန်မာဘာသာ ၁၂၅,၀၀၀+ စာရင်းများ. 中文 1,781,000+ 词条 / 詞條. ภาษาไทย 312,000+ ตำแหน่งเข้า. Deutsch 1.137.000+ Einträge. Ελληνικά 1. ...
Sep 1, 2024 · English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England. Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English. 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 187: Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions.
Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki and dictionary. It is available in 193 languages and in Simple English. Like its sister project Wikipedia, Wiktionary is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, and is written collaboratively by volunteers, dubbed "Wiktionarians".
Aug 30, 2024 · Wiktionary is a multilingual dictionary (also thesaurus and phrase-book) and has distinctive content policies. Words must be attested and idiomatic (that is, words should be in use, and phrases should be commonly used idioms), and submissions should be neutral and verifiable.
Aug 30, 2024 · dictionary (plural dictionaries) Two interlanguage dictionaries. A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings (senses), and sometimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, and translations, as well as other data.
Apr 20, 2024 · The purpose of Wiktionary Thesaurus is to serve the role of an electronic thesaurus—a dictionary of synonyms, near-synonyms, antonyms, and near-antonyms, and also of other semantically related terms such as hyponyms, hypernyms, meronyms, and holonyms.
3 days ago · Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a. Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@. By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a. Kosov@; Pin@y.
Jun 3, 2024 · She [a girl who had her left tibia removed] is quite upright, has no defect either of ſtrength or motion in her leg, and ſcarcely any deformity; if any thing, 'tis a ſmall matter bigger than the other juſt above the ankle, occaſioned by the exuberance of the callus, by which the remains of the tibia are conſolidated with the fibula; […
Jun 27, 2024 · Whether they are pronounced identically or differently varies between idiolects. The BBC prescribes the following distinction: [1] (a) Dickens novel and Dickens’ novel /dɪkɪnz nɒvəl/, Dickens’s novel /dɪkɪnzɪz nɒvəl/; princess’s and princesses’ /pɹɪn.sɛs.ɪz/; i.e. adding bare ’ does not change pronunciation.
