wiktionary

1. Alternative letter-case form of Wiktionary.

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

   2007, Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy, The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization, page 313

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   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".

   2015, Werner Krauß, “Heritage and Climate Change: A Fatal Affair”, in David C. Harvey, Jim Perry, editors, The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity (Key Issues in Cultural Heritage), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 54

plural wiktionaries

1. Alternative letter-case form of Wiktionary: any of the editions of the dictionary, written in a certain language.

   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.

   2013, Anaïd Donabédian, Victoria Khurshudian, Max Silberztein, Formalising Natural Languages with NooJ, page 18

2. Any online lexicon resembling Wiktionary, often one that can be freely edited.

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

   2011, Zygmunt Vetulani, Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science

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

   2011, Nikolas Coupland, The Handbook of Language and Globalization

   This lower bound is logically determined – a wiktionary with fewer entries could never provide a full IDS list – and not meant to be realistic. We do not know how big a wiktionary has to be in order to provide, say, 75% of an IDS list, but it is likely that several thousands of entries are required for this.

   2013, Lars Borin, Anju Saxena, Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, page 297

plural Wiktionaries · alternative wiktionary · alternative misspelling Wikitionary

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.

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   [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!

   2003 May 1, Hamish Mackintosh, “Talk time: William Gibson”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2016, page 21

   Wiktionary is a multilingual dictionary (also thesaurus and phrase-book) and has distinctive content policies. Words must be attested and idiomatic (that is, words should be in use, and phrases should be commonly used idioms), and submissions should be neutral and verifiable. […] Wiktionary was proposed on the Wikipedia-L mailing list in April 2001 by Larry Sanger, just three months after Wikipedia was launched. […] An outside project called Omegawiki, started by a handful of Wiktionarians, is working on a grand combination of data from Wiktionary into a single dictionary for all languages.

   2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, “Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects”, in How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 428/430

   Wikipedia has a well-known policy (to experienced editors, at least) stating what kinds of information belong in the encyclopedia. The sister projects that the Wikimedia Foundation supports, such as Wiktionary, fulfill some of the roles that Wikipedia does not. […] Wiktionary is a free, multilingual dictionary with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations. It's the "lexical companion" to Wikipedia.

   2008, John Broughton, “What Wikipedia is Not”, in Wikipedia Reader’s Guide (The Missing Manual), Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 22

   Collaborative online resources such as Wiktionary may offer a first view of recent coinages which have not yet been included in traditional dictionaries.

   2010, Elizabeth Knowles, “[Appendix:] Where to Look: A Selection of Online Resources”, in How to Read a Word, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 159

   The source of a Wiktionary relation is usually associated with a certain word sense. The syntax [2] fish within the article bass, e.g., indicates that the second sense of bass (the fish within the order of Perciformes) is the source of a (hypernymy) relation to the target term fish. Unfortunately, the target of a relation is not sense disambiguated in general, as it is only given by a link to a certain article. For the term fish in the relation above, it is not clear whether the maritime animal, a part of a ship's mast or a card game is meant. Automatic word sense disambiguation is required to determine the correct sense of the target. To our knowledge, this issue has not been addressed in any of the works based on Wiktionary.

   2010, Christian M. Meyer, Iryna Gurevych, “Worth Its Weight in Gold or Yet Another Resource – A Comparative Study of Wiktionary, OpenThesaurus and GermaNet”, in Alexander Gelbukh, editor, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 11th International Conference, CICLing 2010, Iasi, Romania, March 21–27, 2010, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 6008; LNCS Sublibrary; SL 1 (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues)), Berlin; Heidelberg; New York, N.Y.: Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 41

   Synonyms: Wikt

2. Any of the editions of the dictionary, written in a certain language.

   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.

   2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, “Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects”, in How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 430

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   Given this, a serious question looms: how did the Malagasy Wiktionary come to be so large? […] “On the other hand, I had the French and English Wiktionaries which each had more Malagasy words than the entire Malagasy Wiktionary. [That was] the trigger to start working on the Malagasy Wiktionary. In 2009, [I] didn’t know much programming at that time, so I did everything by hand, at least in the beginning.”

   2020 August 4, Cyrus Multhauf, quoting Jagwar, “How a Malagasy Teenager Created the World’s Second-Largest Dictionary”, in NEEM Blog, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021

   Synonyms: Wikt