Wiktionary

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation to produce a free and complete…

   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.
2. 2

   A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as…

   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).

3. 3

   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".
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      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. 5

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

      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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