Subject: Re: AbiSaurus v0.05
From: Justin R. Smith (jsmith@mcs.drexel.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 08:17:52 CDT
On 09 Jul 2001 10:12:35 +0100, F J Franklin wrote:
> > best of all, i had no idea "Cyprian" meant "prostitute". why doesn't a
> > search for "Cyprian" yield synonyms?
>
> `Cyprus' was another name for Aphrodite, since she is supposed to
> have come to Greece from Anatolia via Cyprus.
>
> As synonyms go, this one is unusually archaic...
>
> Regards, Frank
>
> Francis James Franklin
> F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
>
> Their consultation consisted chiefly in propounding and supporting, for
> the thousandth time, each his favourite theories.
An excellent public-domain source of definitions and synonyms is
WordNet, a lexical database that contains a basic dictionary (as well as
much other information on word, such as part of speech, etc.)
See
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
This could also be the basis of a thesaurus, dictionary, or even a
grammar checker.
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