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Get an access to the definitions of over 800 000 English entries, such as words, phrasal verbs, multi-word expressions etc.
Lemmatization
Determine the lemma for different inflected forms of a word, including irregular and obsolete forms.
Pronunciations
Use the API to get audio pronunciations and IPA transcriptions for words and multi-word expressions.
Inflections
Get different inflected forms of a word, i. e. plural form of a noun or past participle form of a verb etc.
Morphemic Analysis
Get the smallest meaning-bearing units of language with morpheme segmentation. For example, the word simplifications is segmented into simple + -ify + -ation + -s.
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{ "entries": [ { "entry": "example", "pronunciations": [ { "transcriptions": [ { "transcription": "/ɪɡˈzæmpl̩/", "notation": "IPA" } ], "audio": { "url": "http://audio.linguarobot.io/en/example-us.mp3", "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=267013" }, "context": { "regions": [ "United States" ] } }, { "transcriptions": [ { "transcription": "/ɪɡˈzɑːmpl̩/", "notation": "IPA" } ], "context": { "regions": [ "United Kingdom" ] } }, { "transcriptions": [ { "transcription": "/ɘɡˈzɐːmpɯ/", "notation": "IPA" } ], "context": { "regions": [ "New Zealand" ] } } ], "interpretations": [ { "lemma": "example", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "grammar": [ { "number": [ "singular" ], "case": [ "nominative" ] } ], "normalizedLemmas": [ { "lemma": "example" } ] }, { "lemma": "example", "partOfSpeech": "verb", "grammar": [ { "person": [ "first-person", "second-person" ], "number": [ "singular" ], "verbForm": [ "finite" ], "tense": [ "present" ], "mood": [ "indicative" ] }, { "person": [ "first-person", "second-person", "third-person" ], "number": [ "plural" ], "verbForm": [ "finite" ], "tense": [ "present" ], "mood": [ "indicative" ] }, { "person": [ "first-person", "second-person", "third-person" ], "number": [ "singular", "plural" ], "verbForm": [ "finite" ], "tense": [ "present" ], "mood": [ "subjunctive" ] }, { "verbForm": [ "finite" ], "mood": [ "imperative" ] }, { "verbForm": [ "infinitive" ] } ], "normalizedLemmas": [ { "lemma": "example" } ] } ], "lexemes": [ { "lemma": "example", "partOfSpeech": "verb", "senses": [ { "definition": "To be illustrated or exemplified (by)." } ], "forms": [ { "form": "examples", "grammar": [ { "person": [ "third-person" ], "number": [ "singular" ], "verbForm": [ "finite" ], "tense": [ "present" ], "mood": [ "indicative" ] } ] }, { "form": "exampling", "grammar": [ { "verbForm": [ "participle" ], "tense": [ "present" ] } ] }, { "form": "exampling", "grammar": [ { "verbForm": [ "gerund" ] } ] }, { "form": "exampled", "grammar": [ { "person": [ "first-person", "second-person", "third-person" ], "number": [ "singular", "plural" ], "verbForm": [ "finite" ], "tense": [ "past" ], "mood": [ "indicative" ] } ] }, { "form": "exampled", "grammar": [ { "verbForm": [ "participle" ], "tense": [ "past" ] } ] } ] }, { "lemma": "example", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "senses": [ { "definition": "Something that is representative of all such things in a group.", "labels": [ "countable" ] }, { "definition": "Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.", "labels": [ "countable" ] }, { "definition": "Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).", "labels": [ "countable" ] }, { "definition": "A person punished as a warning to others.", "labels": [ "countable" ] }, { "definition": "A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.", "labels": [ "countable" ] }, { "definition": "An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.", "labels": [ "countable" ] } ], "forms": [ { "form": "examples", "grammar": [ { "number": [ "plural" ], "case": [ "nominative" ] } ] } ] } ], "license": { "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" }, "sourceUrls": [ "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/example" ] } ] }