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
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.
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 🙂
¡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