Dictionary File

arcdestroyer

Hi,

I'm writting a program at the minute that requires a dictionary file of a format below:

word: meaning of word

does anyone know a good free dictionary download to help me with this?

cheers

yossarin

what language ?
if Java use the ResourcesBundle framework

//edit: actually, you'll have speed problems if this dictionary will be large. whats it for ?

yossarin

just realise that you probably mean a data set rather than a programmatic method.

have a goo at http://sourceforge.net/projects/atla/ or similar . STFW tbh.

Hobbes

Dictionaries tend not to be free. Thats not to say there isn't one. You could try making a HTTP request to dictionary.com and parsing the page for the definations.

ressem

Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/673
:rolleyes: might be a bit out of date though. Telephone, but no television for you.

Version here is in html, and looks like it would be easy to parse / convert.
http://www.translatum.gr/dictionaries/download-english.htm

But is out of copyright.

Syth

Wiktionary? Al their stuff is Creative Commons licence, so you can yoink at will. However you will have to do some parsing first.

arcdestroyer

I'm writting it in JAVA and i need to dictionary for a crossword generator i'm creating. The dictionary i'm using at the moment is one by Ross Beresford(ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/homeent/ukacd14.zip) for anyone interested.

This dictionary only gives a list of words with no definition and many of the words are completely abstract and contains many acronym's which look a bit out of place in the crossword.

I'm looking for a dictionary with words and then a definition for the word but can't seem to find one anywhere, i guess i'll have to keep on searching.

Thanks for all the replies though, much appreciated

arcdestroyer

ressem wrote:

Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/673
:rolleyes: might be a bit out of date though. Telephone, but no television for you.

Version here is in html, and looks like it would be easy to parse / convert.
http://www.translatum.gr/dictionaries/download-english.htm

But is out of copyright.

The 2nd one is a pretty good link and the parsing shouldn't be too complicated.
Thanks for that

Capt'n Midnight

You could try look for thesaurus site:sourceforge.net
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