An open source English language dictionary with 176,023 definitions.
This is based on the Source Forge Project: MySQL English Dictionary , which in turn in based on the The Online Plain Text English Dictionary (OPTED) dictionary.
OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg e-text of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. See Project Gutenberg.
Since the dictionary is based on 1913 edition, it does not include any modern words (Yet!, but in a future release will include the database Princeton University's WordNet.
You can clone the repository by running:
git clone https://github.com/UberPython/English-Dictionary-Open-SourceFind the usage instructions here.
The dictionary has 3 fields
- word: In lowercase
- word type: Abbreviations describe the type, e.g. verb, noun, etc.
- definition: Definition of the word in sentence case
The table is named 'entries' and has the following schema
Column Type Schema
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word varchar(25) "word" varchar(25) NOT NULL
wordtype varchar(20) "wordtype" varchar(20) NOT NULL
definition text "definition" text NOT NULL
There are 3 formats available as of now
| Format & Link | Description |
|---|---|
| CSV | A single file with all the words in standard CSV format |
| SQLITE3 | A single file formatted as a SQLITE3 database |
| MYSQL | MySQL dump that can be imported directly inside MySQL / MariaDB |
| Language | Instructions are available for |
|---|---|
| Python | CSV, SQLITE3, MYSQL |
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Project Gutenberg: For providing the original 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Make sure you read the Project Gutenberg's README for license and other details if you care considering using this for commercial purposes.
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x16bkkamz6rkb78: For compiling the MySQL dump and releasing on Source Forge.
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dumblob: For providing the extraordinarily elegant mysql2sqlite tool for converting the MySQL dump to SQLite3.