I was working on a project on an English Dictionary for Scilab where I made use of a dictionary in a csv file.
I got the word meanings from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.
I then converted the text files into csv. I am sharing those here if anyone needs them.
Just don’t forget to thank me in the comments section below.
[EDIT: Notmi Namae made a generous contribution by compiling all the words in a singe CSV with the title, type and meaning in different cells. You can download it: dictionary.csv]
Dictionary in csv:
Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A
Words in Csv:
Aword Bword Cword Dword Eword Fword Gword Hword Iword Jword Kword Lword Mword Nword Oword Pword Qword Rword Sword Tword Uword Vword Wword Xword Yword Zword
Download all of them in a zip file:
Hope you find it useful!
Acknowledgement:
OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary)
I don’t know how to use it yet but I am sure it will be very usefull. Thank you.
You’re welcome!
EXACTLY what I needed! Thankyou so much
Hi, I’m noticing that the D words are missing. Do you have a corrected list with all the D words in the same format as the rest of the dictionary?
its not very useful if the word is in the same cell as the definition. And i think most systems could handle all 26 letters in one file
Well you can easily separate the words from the meanings by little programming.. I mean you could use a code that would find the first occurrence of this ‘)’ and then copy everything after it to a different file.
I preferred to have the words and the meanings together cause I wanted to display the whole thing.
Again a little programming can be used to concatenate(append) all the files together. However I didnt do that to save processing time. Cause I could just have a look at the first letter and know the file that I need to look for the word in thereby saving me some time. I f you have all the words in the same file and the user enters a word startin
g from ‘z’ then you would have to unnecessarily go through almost all the words in the file, thereby wasting a lot of time.
The dictionary file is completely corrupt, is is missing large patches of definitions in several letters. The csv individual letter files are complete, but they are not parsed properly into cells. I am correcting it all and putting it into one file, but I will need to get rid of all the spaces in the parts of speech ‘field’ to use a space delimiter, and then I will need to concatenate all of the cells from the definitions back together in individual files, and hopefully dump the double spacing, will probably need to do it with 26 separate files and finally combine, these systems don’t want to concatenate 30+ columns for hundreds of thousands of items at once, it strains this 16gb ryzen 7 significantly. What I don’t understand is how serious computer scientists could miss these huge gaps. D is missing entirely in the dictionary file. It will take half a day to fix this. Thanks for including the individual letter files, else nothing would save this unless I wanted to parse the full text files from Gutenberg project, and those are probably all gone now. Even then, a real pain.
Hi dear Sharma
I am Manoochehr Karimi , English Language Teacher, from Iran.
I need the audio files of each English words in mp3.
Would you mind helping me how to get them?
Thanks a million
email: [email protected]
Many thanks, indeed! Quite helpful.
Thanks you very much u have solved my big problem………..
This is fantastic and is excellent work.
Thanks!
thanks for this it was really helpful
I’m glad you found it useful 🙂
=D thank you
You are awesome. Thanks for sharing. Can’t believe some are complaining, lol. Saved me a bunch of time! 🙂
Appreciate your feedback! 🙂 Glad you found it useful.
thank you so much for the materials!
Thank you so much mate! You really made my life easier! Cheers!
Thank you very much, cool work 🙂
How is this more practical than the original OPTED dictionary?
You just removed the structure and added random linebreaks and quotation marks so that it cannot be reused as easily. CSV is there to have multiple cells in different lines and not to take the whole line and put it into a single cell, so why didn’t you just utilize this?
For one thing, the software that I was working with could only read a csv. So basically yeah its just a txt converted to a csv.
I take it that you want the word to be in a different column and the meaning in another.
Well, I didn’t need that as I already explained in a previous comment.
Okay, I understand.
I downloaded the dictionary from the original page myself now and formatted it into a single file (including a-z) with UTF-8 encoding and separate columns of the form:
“word”,”type”,”description”
If anyone needs it, I put it onto my google drive:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByLZAhdz2XrhdTMtZ0hRaExZUkE
(PS: If you want to, you can also add it to your blog above as download)
That’s pretty COOL of you! Thanks 🙂
Just found this. Strong work. The file Notmi created, at least the version posted here, only has b words through badger. I didn’t look further — there may be other missing words.
¡Muchas gracias!
It is very useful, thanks!
Thank you very much. I have been searching for it for ages.
Thanks.
Tnks! It’s awesome!
Thanks for sharing…it is much helpful.
Thank you so much!
This is a poet’s dream. I couldn’t find anything like this until now. It’s been years. The find function is a journey.
Thanks a lot. I was searching a thing like that. And it is great for me.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was looking for this! I’m making a java project based on Scrabble board game. I’ll be sure to reference your name and website. You’re awesome man! 🙂
THANK YOU! You just saved me several weeks of work!
Glad you found it useful
thank you soooooooooo muchhhh man:)
Exactly what I was looking for! Thank goodness I didn’t have to make it myself!
Thanks Bro
Thanks much!
Thanks man!!!!
Many thanks
Thank you for the wonderful work. It is much useful if it has pronunciations as well. Is there any way for you to include them
Thank you very much! it’s very useful!
Thank you very much for sharing! It’s what I’ve been looking for!
Thanx brother great hard work done by you to make our work easy. i was looking for the same.
Thanx Once again Great Job.
Such a time saver!!! Thank you so much!!
Thanks. It’s very helpful
thanks bud
thanks buddy
Thanks, I am sure it’s going to help me a lot
Thanks brother for sharing, wish you all the best.
This is not a CSV file. It’s just a test dump of dictionary data containing non standard test which kinda resembles a dictionary. CSV means “Comma Separated Values” .
You should not use the acronym CSV. Did you even research what a CSV file was before pretending to make one. It should not be published with the CSV extension because it is not a CSV text data-file.
It hinders real work because it useless as a CSV file. People should study the subject matter before committing a claimed general work. Yes it can be converted to CSV. but that dosent make it a CSV file. call it .dat or something other than CSV. Why ? CSV is a standard file format with specific defined formatting rules.
Each line of a .CSV file is considered as a data-entry/record.
Which is what the files provide.
Also, as mentioned in the post above, here is the link to the comma separated words and meanings: https://www.bragitoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dictionary.csv
Moreover, I am not sure how it cost you more time? It literally gives you the word meanings in each line, and not only that it gives the list of words separately as well. Just feed it into http://www.delim.co and generate an array from the .csv file.
As I explained in another comment: ”
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I wasted allot of time trying to figure out this junk. I’m sorry I’m not trying to be rude, but It’s very incomplete and full of errors. You should have kept it to yourself and the few people who needed this kind of incomplete data-set. It cost me time. There is already to much incomplete error riddled work published on the internet .
Well, as you can see at least 40 plus comments are expressing their gratitude for it. So, it wasn’t really useless.
Thanks!
Thankyou it is useful – you just have to know how to use it!
Thank you, Manas. This makes looking up meanings of words, very easy. Much appreciated.
I too was a physicist getting a PhD in Radio Physics from The University of Adelaide 43 years ago. Now I am writing a kind of semi-autobiography, first in Urdu then in English. I cannot read Hindi script.
Having lived overseas for almost 50 years, I had forgotten most of my Urdu/Hindi vocabulary but it is slowly returning. Having found it difficult with on-line dictionaries I have been considering creating my own English/Urdu/Hindi dictionary Thesaurus using a database approach then making it available on line free. I am going to download your English dictionary and experiment with that first.
Thank you so much!
The combined csv is missing a lot of entries. For example, the word “example” is missing along with any E word after “eclipsed.” Not sure what happened, but it seems like about half of the entries are missing in that file. I’m going to have to redo the work of putting it all together, so email me if you would like the finished CSV to post here.
Thank you