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The Collaborative International Dictionary
of English (CIDE) was derived from the
1913
Webster's Dictionary and has been supplemented with some of
the definitions from
WordNet. It is being proof-read and supplemented by
volunteers from around the world.
This electronic
dictionary is also made available as a potential starting
point for development of a modern comprehensive encyclopedic
dictionary, to be accessible freely on the
Internet, and developed by the efforts of all individuals
willing to help build a large and freely available
knowledge base.
The original(?) version of the dictionary is maintained by a
non-profit organization called
World Soul based in
Plainfield, New Jersey. There are several derivative
versions of this dictionary on the Internet, in some cases
reformatted or provided with an interface:
-
Project Gutenberg, in the extext96 directory
- The
DICT development group
- The
University of Chicago
ARTFL project
- The
GNU
project's
GCIDE
References
- Primary source:
README.dictionary from
GCIDE.
External links
-
ARTFL Lookup form for Webster's 1913 edition
-
Call for collaborators contains a statement of the
project's aims.