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The concept of a Semantic Dictionary emerged in academia, and as a significant realization, the Wordnet Dictionary was developed at Princeton University. Wordnetplus is an expansion of the Wordnet dictionary and comes to you in a rich interface.

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Curated Links to Wikipedia

Advantages Of A Semantic Dictionary Over Common Dictionaries

Empower language users to navigate the complexities of meaning, offering exploration of synonyms, antonyms, and semantic associations that enhance communication.
Indispensable resources for writers, scholars, and language enthusiasts, offering a wealth of information to express ideas with precision and clarity.
Reveal the interconnectedness of language, offering insights into how words and concepts are related.
Deeper understanding of words by situating them within a network of semantic relationships.
Facilitate nuanced comprehension and usage of language, surpassing the limitations of mere definitions.
Richer approach to language learning, enhancing cognitive connections between concepts.
Allows users to explore not just what words mean, but how they relate to other words and concepts (e.g. from ‘dog’ to ‘canine’).
Linguistic treasure trove revealing the semantic richness and versatility of words.

Semantic Relationship

Exemplifying, the entry ‘car’ and its synonyms have the following taxonomy:

—artifact
——instrumentality
———transport, conveyance
————vehicle
—————wheeled vehicle
——————self-propelled vehicle
———————motor vehicle …
————————car, auto, automobile

—————————ambulance (and many other kinds of car)
——————————funny wagon

Wordnetplus allows navigation both upwards (generalization) and downwards (specialization), thereby expanding the understanding of its meaning, for example, as a means of transportation.

Now, e.g., the entry ‘transport’, ‘conveyance’, in turn, has its own taxonomy which upwards, is the same as the entry ‘car’, but downwards, includes this entry, along with many other kinds of transportation.

—transport, conveyance

This is what sets up the SEMANTIC NETWORK that applies in different contexts for each grammatical category.

Synonyms and Antonyms grouped in each meaning

Deep Understanding of the Semantic Network

Any number of Lists sharable and synchronized among devices.

Browse the network of meanings by semantic criteria

Seamless Integration with Wikipedia and More

Enrich your vocabulary and knowledge

For Teachers and Students

Wordnetplus is an encyclopedic dictionary that helps build english vocabulary skills and, at the same time, be a powerful instrument of knowledge acquisition, with its unique features bundled to ease the mental process of memorizing new words.

For Writers

Wordnetplus is designed to enrich one’s writing through precise word crafting and semantic exploration, making it a writer’s best friend.

By diving deeper into the nuances of language, it empowers creative writers to discover the power of words.

Refining and enriching writing, promising a transformative impact on the way writers approach their art.

Special Lists

During installation, Special Lists are added that can be imported from the Main Menu/List. See some of them.

Common_Words

About 3,000 words everyone should know for basic English.

Proficiency_Words

More than 500 words for more proficient vocabulary.

Vegetable_main

Main edible vegetables.

Interjections

List of entries whose concepts lead to interjections in the semantic relationship Narrow - Instance (e.g. disgust-> bah, faugh, pah)

Phrasal_Verbs

The most complete "dictionary" containing around 1900 Phrasal Verbs for access to their definitions, examples and synonyms, in addition to their semantic relationships with other entries.

Scientific_Biography

Leading scientists in various areas of knowledge.

Legal_Collocations

Expressions used in legal circles (e.g. actus reus)

Wikipedia_Lists

Entries that are linked to Lists on Wikipedia (e.g. aquarium -> List of aquaria on Wikipedia)

Interjections, Prefixes and Suffixes

It is also unique as a dictionary of interjections, prefixes and suffixes, as it semantically associates them with the concepts to which they apply. See examples:

Interjection

Given the liturgical entry, one can obtain the interjections: Christ, alleluia, begorra, Bismillah, etc.

Prefix

Given the entry bad, in the concept of: negative qualities, one can obtain the prefixes caco- (cacophony) and mis- (misdeed).

Suffix

Given the entry ability, in the concept of: the quality of being able, one can obtain the suffixes -ability (informs the grammatical transformation adj->noun, eg available -> availability), -craft (housecraft) and - ship (musicianship).

Integration with Wikipedia

Its integration with Wikipedia, in more than 50,000 entries curated by manual disambiguation, makes Wordnetplus a taxonomic (hierarchical) index to this encyclopedia. Through semantic relationships, a plan for acquiring knowledge of specific topics, for example, of sedimentary rocks, can be established.

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Curated Links to Wikipedia

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Opinions

Completely satisfied with the Wordnetplus dictionary/thesaurus. In addition to a superior interface, Wordnetplus' semantic content sets it apart from traditional dictionaries. Integration with Wikipedia expands the consultation possibilities. And congratulations also for the additional best dictionary of prefixes and suffixes, as well as synonyms contextualized in the definitions.

Thanks for sharing this wonderful resource. A lot of work must have gone into it; let's hope many people will use it.” - Christiane Fellbaum, a computational linguist at Princeton University, one of the principal investigators and actual leader of the WordNet project

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