GCIDE is the

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version of

Collaborative International Dictionary of English The ''Collaborative International Dictionary of English'' (''CIDE'') was derived from the 1913 ''Webster's Dictionary'' and has been supplemented with some of the definitions from WordNet. It is being proof-read and supplemented by volunteers from ...

, derived from the 1913 edition of

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and

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. The

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is released under the

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files containing the marked-up text of a substantial English dictionary".

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External links

GCIDE homepage

GCIDE FTP site

GCIDE_XML
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version of the dictionary, along with an online search facility.
GNU Dico web search
{{Dictionaries of English GNU Project Online English dictionaries

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