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.
Today is celebrated by some people as World Cocktail Day. On this day in 1806, the AmericanjournalistHarry Croswell, the editor of the Balance and Columbian Repository, defined a cocktail in his newspaper as “a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters”.
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.
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