When people greet one another with Christmas in North America, they say, "Merry Christmas!" In the U.K, "Happy Christmas!" is heard. It is increasingly common for Americans to say "Happy holidays", re ...
Most of the differences in lexis or vocabulary between British and American English are in connection with concepts originating from the 19th century to the mid 20th century, when new words were coine ...
The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia. Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a re ...
WWWJDIC is an online Japanese dictionary based on the electronic dictionaries compiled and collected by Australian academic Jim Breen. The main Japanese–English dictionary files (EDICT) contain aroun ...
Wordnet is connected to several databases of the Semantic Web. WordNet is also commonly re-used via mappings between the WordNet categories (i.e. synsets) and the categories from other ontologies. Mos ...
History and team members WordNet was created at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George Armitage Miller. Wordnet is still maintained ...
Wiktionary was brought online on December 12, 2002, following a proposal by Daniel Alston and an idea by Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia. On March 28, 2004, the first non-English Wiktionaries we ...
The site was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham while he was a freshman computer science major at California Polytechnic State University. One of the first definitions on the site was "the man", defined ...
Dictionary.com, one of the leading online dictionaries, was founded in 1998 by Brian Kariger and Daniel Fierro, as part of Lexico Publishing, which also included Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. The p ...
Pseudodictionary is an online dictionary for neologisms. It was founded in 2001. Site visitors submit an original word or phrase for inclusion, giving a description and an example. Unlike most collabo ...
Logos Dictionary is a large multilingual online dictionary provided by Logos Group, a European translation company. It was started in 1995, and as of 2005 contains over 7 million terms in over 200 lan ...
The website hosts six free German language based bilingual dictionaries and fora for additional language queries. The dictionaries are characterized by providing translations in forms of hyperlinks to ...
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) is an online, searchable, encyclopedic dictionary of computing subjects. It was founded in 1985 by Denis Howe and is hosted by Imperial College London ...
The Double-Tongued Dictionary is an online dictionary. It catalogs a growing lexicon of undocumented or under-documented words on the fringes of English, focusing on slang, jargon, and new words.Forme ...
Neologisms may come from popular literature in different forms. Sometimes, they are simply taken from a word used in the narrative of a book; a few representative examples are "grok" (to achieve compl ...
