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Wiktionary vs WordNet

A side-by-side look at Wiktionary and WordNet. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Wiktionary

Wiktionary

Education & Reference

Wiktionary is a free, collaborative, multilingual dictionary project operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. It aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, synonyms, and more.

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WordNet

WordNet

Education & Reference

WordNet is a large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations.

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