Where can I download english dictionary database in a text format

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I need to read the text file for a word and return its meaning  Any other file format will also work

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I dont know if its too late  but i thought it would help someone else   I wanted the same badly   found it eventually   Maybe its not perfect but to me its adequate for my little dictionary app    http   www androidtech com downloads wordnet20-from-prolog-all-3 zip  Its not a dump file  but a MYSQL  sql script file  The words are in WN SYNSET table and the glossary meaning in the WN GLOSS table

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user1247808 has a good link with  wget -c   http   www androidtech com downloads wordnet20-from-prolog-all-3 zip  If that isn t enough words for you   http   dumps wikimedia org enwiktionary latest enwiktionary-latest-all-titles-in-ns0 gz  updated url from Michael Kropat s suggestion   Although that file name changes  you ll want to find the latest     that turns out just to be a big  very big  text file   http   dumps wikimedia org enwiktionary

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The Gutenberg Project hosts Webster s Unabridged English Dictionary plus many other public domain literary works  Actually it looks like they ve got several versions of the dictionary hosted with copyright from different years  The one I linked has a 2009 copyright  You may want to poke around the site and investigate the different versions of Webster s dictionary

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Check if these free resources fit your need -   FOLDOC - dictionary source is a single plain text file  ObjectGraph has a SQL Server database version of the WordNet lexical database from Princeton University

[dictionary] Where can I download english dictionary database in a text format?

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