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.
Yesterday, April 23, is traditionally celebrated as the birthdate of the EnglishplaywrightWilliam Shakespeare who was born 460 years ago in 1564—the term slings and arrows is from the second quarto of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet (written 1599–1601 and first published 420 years ago in 1604).
This is the English-language Wiktionary, where words from all languages are defined in English. For example, see the entry for the French word dictionnaire. To find a French definition of that word, visit the equivalent page in the French Wiktionary.
Wiktionary is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit foundation headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. Wikimedia operates several other multilingual and open-content sister wiki projects: