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designed as the lexical companion to Wikipedia, the encyclopedia project, Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. we aim to include not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it. thus etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations are included.
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this is the English-language Wiktionary, where words from all languages are defined in English. for example, see the entry for the French word dictionnaire. To find a French definition of that word, visit the equivalent page in the French Wiktionary.
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