Re: Dictionary source

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Lars Aronsson wrote:

> Pedro M.V. wrote:
>
> > I suggest the www.openoffice.org dictionaries can be obtained from
> > wiktionary and viceversa, wiktionary can obtain words form
> > openoffice dictinaries.
>
> The common spelling programs spell, ispell, pspell, aspell, and
> MySpell (the latter used by OpenOffice.org) have dictionaries that
> only know how to spell words, but never contain any explanations.
> Is there any free source of dictionaries on a level between these
> simple spelling dictionaries and the full encyclopedia?  E.g. with
> short dictionary-like explanations of each word?

A number of these (and Wikipedia) can be searched at www.onelook.com.

Andre Engels