Wiktionary

//ˈwɪk.ʃəˌnɛɹ.i// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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"

  2. 2
    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."

Proper Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Wiktionary. alt-of

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

  3. 3
    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).

    "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."

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"It's easy enough to find elsewhere (Wiktionary, for instance) how to conjugate a verb. It's much harder to find the meaning of a word captured in a realistic sentence. This is Tatoeba's key mission, the thing that makes it unique, and I believe we should focus on it."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Polynesian *witi Hawaiian wiki Hawaiian wikiwikider. English wiki Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Medieval Latin dīcō Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Medieval Latin -tiō Medieval Latin dictiō Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsios Medieval Latin -ārius Medieval Latin -ārium Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor. Middle English dixionare English dictionary blend English Wiktionary Blend of wiki + dictionary.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.