Python module with access to english dictionaries including definitions of words [closed]

Answer 1

Note that while WordNet does not have all English words, what about the Oxford English Dictionary? (http://developer.oxforddictionaries.com/). Depending on the scope of your project, it could be a killer API.

Have you tried looking at Grady Ward's Moby? [link] (http://icon.shef.ac.uk/Moby/).

You could add it as a lexicon in NLTK (see notes on "Loading your own corpus" in Section 2.1).

from nltk.corpus import PlaintextCorpusReader
corpus_root = '/usr/share/dict'
wordlists = PlaintextCorpusReader(corpus_root, '.*')

Or:

from nltk.corpus import BracketParseCorpusReader
corpus_root = r"C:\corpora\penntreebank\parsed\mrg\wsj"
file_pattern = r".*/wsj_.*\.mrg"
ptb = BracketParseCorpusReader(corpus_root, file_pattern)