wiktionary

Syllables: Wik·tion·a·ry/ˈwɪk.ʃən.ɹi/

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British/ˈwɪkʃənɹɪj/

wiktionary is the alternative letter-case form of Wiktionary.

Noun

wiktionary (plural wiktionaries)

Any online lexicon resembling Wiktionary, often one that can be freely edited.
- However, with the increase in free resources like wiktionaries, or the increase in the number of translated materials available on the Internet2011, Zygmunt Vetulani, Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science
- PanLex draws on various lexical resources, including dictionaries, wiktionaries, glossaries, lexicons, word lists, terminologies, thesauri, wordnets, ontologies, vocabulary databases, namedentity resources, and standards2011, Nikolas Coupland, The Handbook of Language and Globalization

Proper noun capitalized: Wiktionary

Wiktionary (plural Wiktionaries)

A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation to produce a free and complete dictionary in every language; the dictionaries, collectively, produced by that project.
- He had logged in to Wiktionary two months ago.
- [Hamish Mackintosh:] So is Google officially a verb now? / [William Gibson:] When I wrote Pattern Recognition, it occurred to me that I could use it as a verb and it also occurred to me that someone might already have done so. I thought it didn't matter too much. If I'm first that's great, but if...2003 May 1, Hamish Mackintosh, “Talk time: William Gibson”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2016, page 21
Synonyms:

Wikt
Any of the editions of the dictionary, written in a certain language.
- The site was brought online in English on December 12, 2002; on March 29, 2004, the first non-English Wiktionaries were initiated in French and Polish. Wiktionaries in over 200 languages now exist, and more than 100 have more than 100 definitions.2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, “Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects”, in How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press, →ISBN...
- Given this, a serious question looms: how did the Malagasy Wiktionary come to be so large? […] “On the other hand, I had the French and English Wiktionaries which each had more Malagasy words than the entire Malagasy Wiktionary. [That was] the trigger to start working on the Malagasy Wiktionary. In...2020 August 4, Cyrus Multhauf, quoting Jagwar, “How a Malagasy Teenager Created the World’s Second-Largest Dictionary”, in NEEM Blog, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021
Synonyms:

Wikt

Synonyms of wiktionary

Wikt

Forms of wiktionary

Noun
plural	wiktionaries
Proper noun
plural	Wiktionaries
alternative form	wiktionary
alternative misspelling	Wikitionary

Origin of wiktionary

English wiktionary From Wiktionary, a blend of wiki + dictionary.

Blend of wiki + dictionary.

Words formed from wiktionary

Questions about wiktionary

What does wiktionary mean?: Wiktionary means any online lexicon resembling Wiktionary, often one that can be freely edited.
What is wiktionary the alternative letter-case form of?: Wiktionary is the alternative letter-case form of Wiktionary.
What part of speech is wiktionary?: Wiktionary can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce wiktionary?: Wiktionary is pronounced /ˈwɪkʃənɹɪj/ (British).
What is the plural of wiktionary?: The plural of wiktionary is wiktionaries.

Words near wiktionary in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: wiktionary (page history and authors); Wiktionary (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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