For an introduction to the Wiktionary project, see Wiktionary:Welcome, newcomers.

English

Proper noun

Wiktionary ‎(plural Wiktionaries)

1. A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation to produce a free and complete dictionary in every language.
2. The dictionaries, collectively, produced by that project.
3. A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary or simply the English Wiktionary.

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Wiktionary.

Translations

See also

• Urban Dictionary
• Webster

Danish

Etymology

From English Wiktionary.

Proper noun

Wiktionary

1. Wiktionary.

Synonyms

• Wikiordbog

German

Etymology

Borrowing from English Wiktionary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪkʃəˌnɛʀi/
• Hyphenation: Wik‧tio‧na‧ry

Proper noun

Wiktionary n ‎(genitive Wiktionarys)

1. Wiktionary.

Declension

See also

• Wikiwörterbuch

Piedmontese

Proper noun

Wiktionary

1. Wiktionary

Synonyms

• Wiksionari

For an introduction to the Wiktionary project, see Wiktionary:Welcome, newcomers. For how to link between projects, see Wiktionary:Links

English

Proper noun

wiktionary

1. Alternative form of Wiktionary
   • 2007, Martin Parker, ‎Valerie Fournier, ‎Patrick Reedy, The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization, page 313:

     It has also spawned a wiktionary, wikiquotes, wikinews, wikibooks and the wikimedia information commons

   • 2015, David Harvey, ‎Jim Perry, The Future of Heritage as Climates Change, page 54:

     In a letter, Otto Maier called this drawing a “Galimathias”; according to a “wiktionary entry,” this is a Greek word that passed from French students to German citizens and signifies something like “nonsense".

Noun

wiktionary ‎(plural wiktionaries)

1. Any on-line lexicon resembling Wiktionary.
   • 2011, Zygmunt Vetulani, Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science:

     However, with the increase in free resources like wiktionaries, or the increase in the number of translated materials available on the Internet

   • 2011, Nikolas Coupland, The Handbook of Language and Globalization:

     PanLex draws on various lexical resources, including dictionaries, wiktionaries, glossaries, lexicons, word lists, terminologies, thesauri, wordnets, ontologies, vocabulary databases, namedentity resources, and standards

   • 2013, Lars Borin, ‎Anju Saxena, Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, page 297:

     This lower bound is logically determined – a wiktionary with fewer entries could never provide a full IDS list – and not meant to be realistic. We do not know how big a wiktionary has to be in order to provide, say, 75% of an IDS list, but it is likely that several thousands of entries are required for this.

2. Any of the free dictionaries produced by a collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
   • 2013, Anaïd Donabédian, ‎Victoria Khurshudian, ‎Max Silberztein, Formalising Natural Languages with NooJ, page 18:

     In fact the English Wiktionary edition contains entries for more than 400 languages, so that out of this source, more language specific wiktionaries could be created than there are actually officially listed.