GCIDE
Encyclopedia
GCIDE is the GNU
version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
.
The dictionary
was derived from the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Version published 1913 and WordNet
.
The GNU version is licensed under the GNU General Public License
.
It describes itself as "a freely-available set of ASCII
files containing the marked-up text of a substantial English dictionary".
GNU
GNU is a Unix-like computer operating system developed by the GNU project, ultimately aiming to be a "complete Unix-compatible software system"...
version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Collaborative International Dictionary of English
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English was derived from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and has been supplemented with some of the definitions from WordNet...
.
The dictionary
Dictionary
A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...
was derived from the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary refers to the line of dictionaries first developed by Noah Webster in the early 19th century, and also to numerous unrelated dictionaries that added Webster's name just to share his prestige. The term is a genericized trademark in the U.S.A...
Version published 1913 and WordNet
WordNet
WordNet is a lexical database for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets...
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The GNU version is licensed under the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
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It describes itself as "a freely-available set of ASCII
ASCII
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...
files containing the marked-up text of a substantial English dictionary".
External links
- GCIDE FTP site
- GCIDE presented in the Extensible Markup Language – An XMLXMLExtensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
version of the dictionary, along with an online search facility.