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On Fri, 23 May 2025 21:45:59 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:

> ------
> still doesn't know exactly what OP wants
>

From the original post:

"Can anyone offer recommendations?"

The current FOSS dictionary seems to be "The Collaborative International
Dictionary of English v.0.53" which dates to 1913.  It is over 100
years old.

Of course the English language hasn't changed much since 1913 but
I was curious if there are any FOSS alternatives.

The wiktionary dumps seemed promising until I read this:

"Extracting all data for all languages from English Wiktionary takes
about 1.25 hours on a 128-core dual AMD EPYC 7702 system."

https://github.com/tatuylonen/wiktextract

I only have 8 cores.

There are pre-expanded files available but these are now deprecated
in favor of the raw, un-expanded data.





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