Dictionary API
API for Defining Lingo
This API is best for retrieving definitions for words, phrases, and vocabulary in over a dozen languages.
A developer should use this API to easily retrieve reliable information for any given word and in multiple languages. It also allows to quickly get illustrations and translations of words and phrases. Overall, it's a great way to access reliable and dependable language resources to use in any project.
Key features
- This API provides definitions for words
- phrases and vocabulary from multiple dictionaries on over 12 languages
- provides illustrations for words and allows to get translations for words
- phrases and vocabulary from multiple dictionaries.
Potential use cases
- Multilingual Text Summarizer: Develop an app which can summarize long texts of any language using terms and definitions from the Dictionary API
- Language Learning Tool: Develop a tool which can help users to learn new languages leveraging the translations and illustrations from the Dictionary API
- Geographical Dictionary: Develop an app which can aggregate terms associated to user specified cities, states or countries from the Dictionary API for reading convenience.
I've been using the Dictionary API to develop my app and it quickly became a necessary part of it. Reliable definitions and translations in multiple languages have been great so far and integrating it was very easy and smooth.
Related Technologies
- Wordnet API
- Oxford Dictionary API
- Wiktionary API