Are you one of those people who are frequently looking up online dictionary sites like dictionary.com? Maybe your work requires you to do that or you simply like finding out the meanings of words you didn’t know about or new meanings of various known words. As far as I am concerned, I consider myself a word junkie, I can spends several hours at a go simply looking for meanings of various words, their roots and their histories. If you find that weird, I’ll suggest that you try it out sometime. Or maybe you could start right away with Wordnik.
Wordnik is a cool new dictionary that has the potential to give existing heavyweight online dictionary sites a run for their money. Wordnik goes much beyond being a simple dictionary by providing users with a lot more than various examples of a given word. Along with regular features that can be found in standard dictionaries like word definition and pronunciation, Wordnik also provides synonyms and antonyms, etymology of the given word and even statistics related to the word’s usage. Users registered with Wordnik can even add their own lists of related words and synonyms.
One of the best features of Wordnik is that it displays the queried word in the context one is looking for; it combs through a vast database of web sites, archives of news papers and magazines, blog posts and even books that are out-of-copyright (from Project Gutenberg) and recent Twitter messages where the word has been used!
At present the Wordnik’s database covers nearly 1.7 million words, the company is now working building apps for smartphones.
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