wiktionary

UK /ˈwɪk.ʃən.ɹi/ US /ˈwɪk.ʃən.ɹi/
name 3noun 2

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1

A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation to produce a free and complete dictionary in every language; the dictionaries, collectively, produced by that project.

He had logged in to Wiktionary two months ago.

[Hamish Mackintosh:] So is Google officially a verb now? / [William Gibson:] When I wrote Pattern Recognition, it occurred to me that I could use it as a verb and it also occurred to me that someone might already have done so. I thought it didn't matter too much. If I'm first that's great, but if I'm not, then it's just good reportage in a way. Sites like Wiktionary track new usages and neologisms. The page on Google as a verb went back almost two years!

2

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

The site was brought online in English on December 12, 2002; on March 29, 2004, the first non-English Wiktionaries were initiated in French and Polish. Wiktionaries in over 200 languages now exist, and more than 100 have more than 100 definitions.

name

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Alternative letter-case form of Wiktionary.

It has also spawned a wiktionary, wikiquotes, wikinews, wikibooks and the wikimedia information commons

In a letter, Otto Maier called this drawing a "Galimathias"; according to a "wiktionary entry," this is a Greek word that passed from French students to German citizens and signifies something like "nonsense".

noun

1

Any online lexicon resembling Wiktionary, often one that can be edited by the public.

However, with the increase in free resources like wiktionaries, or the increase in the number of translated materials available on the Internet

PanLex draws on various lexical resources, including dictionaries, wiktionaries, glossaries, lexicons, word lists, terminologies, thesauri, wordnets, ontologies, vocabulary databases, namedentity resources, and standards

2

Any of the free dictionaries produced by a collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

In fact the English Wiktionary edition contains entries for more than 400 languages, so that out of this source, more language specific wiktionaries could be created than there are actually officially listed.

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