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Re:How can you learn a word without knowing the words within... by marktangotango on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:52PM (#14591258)
What dictionary did you use, what's its license? Last time I checked all the dictionary publishers with APIs had restrictive licenses.
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Re:How can you learn a word without knowing the words within... by dictionaryfeed on Monday June 19, 2017 @09:28PM (#14591612)
I used Online Plain Text English Dictionary. It's public domain and based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). I had to do quite a bit of cleaning and statistics to improve the definition formatting and ordering.

If you're interested in dictionaries and would like to chat sometime, please send me a message. I would love to. :)

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