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Welcome to the English-language Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. It aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English.
Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus , a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. We aim to include not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it. Thus etymologies , pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations are included.
Wiktionary is a wiki , which means that you can edit it, and all the content is dual-licensed under both the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License . Before you contribute, you may wish to read through some of our help pages , and bear in mind that we do things quite differently from other wikis. In particular, we have strict layout conventions and inclusion criteria . Learn how to start a page , how to edit entries , experiment in the sandbox and visit our Community Portal to see how you can participate in the development of Wiktionary.