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Pronunciation

• /ˈwɪk.ʃən.ɹi/ (UK)
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• /ˈwɪk.ʃəˌnɛɹ.i/ (US)
• /ˈwɪk.tʃəˌnɛɹ.i/ (US)
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• /ˈʋɪkʃ.nə.ri/ (India)
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• /ˈwɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/ (Canada)
• /ˈwɪk.ʃə.nə.ɹi/ (UK)
• /ˈwɪk.ʃə.nə.ɹiː/ (Australia)
• wĭkʹshə-nĕr'ē (US)
• (General-American) audio
• [ˈwikʃ.nə.ɾi] (India)
• /ˈʋɪk.ʃə.nɛ.ri/ (India)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Polynesian *witi Hawaiian wiki Hawaiian wikiwiki Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web English WikiWikiWebclip. English wiki Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Latin dīcō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dictiō Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārium ▲ Latin dictiō ▲ Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Latin dictiōnārius? Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor. Middle English dixionare English dictionary blend English Wiktionary Blend of wiki + dictionary.

Meanings

1. 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.
   • The source of a Wiktionary relation is usually associated with a certain word sense. The syntax [2] fish within the article bass, e.g., indicates that the second sense of bass (the fish within the order of Perciformes) is the source of a (hypernymy) relation to the target term fish. Unfortunately, the target of a relation is not sense disambiguated in general, as it is only given by a link to a certain article. For the term fish in the relation above, it is not clear whether the maritime animal, a part of a ship's mast or a card game is meant. Automatic word sense disambiguation is required to determine the correct sense of the target. To our knowledge, this issue has not been addressed in any of the works based on Wiktionary. 2010, Christian M. Meyer, Iryna Gurevych, “Worth Its Weight in Gold or Yet Another Resource – A Comparative Study of Wiktionary, OpenThesaurus and GermaNet”, in Alexander Gelbukh, editor, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 11th International Conference, CICLing 2010, Iasi, Romania, March 21–27, 2010, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 6008; LNCS Sublibrary; SL 1 (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues)), Berlin; Heidelberg; New York, N.Y.: Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 41:
   • In a letter, Otto Maier called this drawing a "Galimathias"; according to a "wiktionary entry," this is a Greek word that passed from French students to German citizens and signifies something like "nonsense". 2015, Werner Krauß, “Heritage and Climate Change: A Fatal Affair”, in David C. Harvey, Jim Perry, editors, The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity (Key Issues in Cultural Heritage), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 54:
   • Collaborative online resources such as Wiktionary may offer a first view of recent coinages which have not yet been included in traditional dictionaries. 2010, Elizabeth Knowles, “[Appendix:] Where to Look: A Selection of Online Resources”, in How to Read a Word, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 159:
   • According to Collins Dictionary and Wiktionary, the term was coined in 2017 by journalist Anzer Ayoob, the term Chenabi is derived from the Chenab River, with the suffix “-i”, commonly used to denote belonging. 2025 July 24, Mubasher Sharief Pathan, “Chenab Valley United”, in Precious Kashmir, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:
   • Wikipedia has a well-known policy (to experienced editors, at least) stating what kinds of information belong in the encyclopedia. The sister projects that the Wikimedia Foundation supports, such as Wiktionary, fulfill some of the roles that Wikipedia does not. […] Wiktionary is a free, multilingual dictionary with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations. It's the "lexical companion" to Wikipedia. 2008, John Broughton, “What Wikipedia is Not”, in Wikipedia Reader’s Guide (The Missing Manual), Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 22:
   • Wiktionary is a multilingual dictionary (also thesaurus and phrase-book) and has distinctive content policies. Words must be attested and idiomatic (that is, words should be in use, and phrases should be commonly used idioms), and submissions should be neutral and verifiable. […] Wiktionary was proposed on the Wikipedia-L mailing list in April 2001 by Larry Sanger, just three months after Wikipedia was launched. […] An outside project called Omegawiki, started by a handful of Wiktionarians, is working on a grand combination of data from Wiktionary into a single dictionary for all languages. 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, page 428/430:
   • [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 I'm not, then it's just good reportage in a way. Sites like Wiktionary track new usages and neologisms. The page on Google as a verb went back almost two years! 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:
   • He had logged in to Wiktionary two months ago.
2. 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, page 430:
   • 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 2009, [I] didn’t know much programming at that time, so I did everything by hand, at least in the beginning.” 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:

Forms

Deriveds

Wikt · Wiktionarian

Descendants

וִיקִימִלּוֹן · وِيكَامُوس · Βικιλεξικό · Vicífhoclóir · Wikisanakirja · Վիքիբառարան · Vikivortaro · Vikisözlük

Synonyms

Wikt · Wikt

Translations (128)

cv Викисӑмахсар (free multilingual online dictionary) · nl Wiktionary (free multilingual online dictionary) · de Wiktionary (free multilingual online dictionary) · uz Vikilugʻat (free multilingual online dictionary) · sh Wječnik (free multilingual online dictionary) · io Wikivortaro (free multilingual online dictionary) · ru Викислова́рь (free multilingual online dictionary) · ml വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടു (free multilingual online dictionary) · scn Wikizziunaru (free multilingual online dictionary) · nb Wiktionary (free multilingual online dictionary) · sco Wiktionar (free multilingual online dictionary) · ur وِکْشَنْری (free multilingual online dictionary) · vi Uých-sân-ri (respelling) (free multilingual online dictionary) · af Wikiwoordeboek (free multilingual online dictionary) · ka ვიქსიკონი (free multilingual online dictionary) · sa विकिशब्दकोश (free multilingual online dictionary) · id Wikikamus (free multilingual online dictionary) · bn উইকিঅভিধান (free multilingual online dictionary) · pa ਵਿਕਸ਼ਨਰੀ (free multilingual online dictionary) · ia Wiktionario (free multilingual online dictionary) · mt Wikizzjunarju (free multilingual online dictionary) · hi विक्षनरी (free multilingual online dictionary) · kn ವಿಕ್ಷನರಿ (free multilingual online dictionary) · nl WikiWoordenboek (free multilingual online dictionary) · ne विक्सनरी (free multilingual online dictionary) · ko 윅셔너리 (free multilingual online dictionary) · sv Wiktionary (free multilingual online dictionary) · co Wikizziunariu (free multilingual online dictionary) · an Biquizionario (free multilingual online dictionary) · mg Wikibolana (free multilingual online dictionary) · sh Викирјечник (free multilingual online dictionary) · sd وڪي لغت (free multilingual online dictionary) · hu Wikiszótár (free multilingual online dictionary) · ast Wikcionariu (free multilingual online dictionary) · hi विकि-शब्दकोश (free multilingual online dictionary) · shn ဝိၵ်ႇသျိၼ်ႇၼရီႇ (free multilingual online dictionary) · ms Wikikamus (free multilingual online dictionary) · sq Wikifjalor (free multilingual online dictionary) · si වික්ෂනරිය (free multilingual online dictionary) · lb Wiktionnaire (free multilingual online dictionary) · th วิกิพจนานุกรม (free multilingual online dictionary) · pl Wikisłownik (free multilingual online dictionary) · ne विक्षनरी (free multilingual online dictionary) · am ዊኪ መዝገበ ቃላት (free multilingual online dictionary) · ky Викисөздүк (free multilingual online dictionary) · fr Wiktionnaire (free multilingual online dictionary) · it Wikizionario (free multilingual online dictionary) · ps ويکيسيند (free multilingual online dictionary) · pt Wikcionário (free multilingual online dictionary) · qu Wiksimitaqi (free multilingual online dictionary) · nds Wiktionary (free multilingual online dictionary) · sl Wikislovar (free multilingual online dictionary) · bg Уикире́чник (free multilingual online dictionary) · et Vikisõnastik (free multilingual online dictionary) · es Wikcionario (free multilingual online dictionary) · lt Vikižodynas (free multilingual online dictionary) · yi וויקיווערטערבוך (free multilingual online dictionary) · cy Wiciadur (free multilingual online dictionary) · eu Wikiztegia (free multilingual online dictionary) · uk Вікісловни́к (free multilingual online dictionary) · ca Viccionari (free multilingual online dictionary) · km វិគីនានុក្រម (free multilingual online dictionary) · sw Wikamusi (free multilingual online dictionary) · li Wiktionair (free multilingual online dictionary) · ro Wikționar (free multilingual online dictionary) · tl Wiksiyonaryo (free multilingual online dictionary) · kmr Wîkîferheng (free multilingual online dictionary) · tt Викисүзлек (free multilingual online dictionary) · tg Викилуғат (free multilingual online dictionary) · as ৱিকিঅভিধান (free multilingual online dictionary) · yue 維基詞典 /维基词典 (free multilingual online dictionary) · ckb ویکیفەرھەنگ (free multilingual online dictionary) · sk Wikislovník (free multilingual online dictionary) · sh Vikirečnik (free multilingual online dictionary) · ar وِيكَامُوس (free multilingual online dictionary) · hu Wiktionary (free multilingual online dictionary) · da Wikiordbog (free multilingual online dictionary) · fa-ira ویکیواژِه (free multilingual online dictionary) · tt Wikisüzlek (free multilingual online dictionary) · ti ዊኪ-መዝገበ-ቃላት (free multilingual online dictionary) · hy Վիքիբառարան (free multilingual online dictionary) · mnw ဝိက်ရှေန်နရဳ (free multilingual online dictionary) · gu વિકિકોશ (free multilingual online dictionary) · eo Vikivortaro (free multilingual online dictionary) · cmn 維基辭典 /维基辞典 (free multilingual online dictionary) · lzh-lit 維基爾雅 (free multilingual online dictionary) · sh Викиречник (free multilingual online dictionary) · yue 維基辭典 /维基辞典 (free multilingual online dictionary) · ug ۋىكىلۇغەت (free multilingual online dictionary) · or ଉଇକିଅଭିଧାନ (free multilingual online dictionary) · sh Vikirječnik (free multilingual online dictionary) · pms Wiksionari (free multilingual online dictionary) · de Wikiwörterbuch (free multilingual online dictionary) · lv Vikivārdnīca (free multilingual online dictionary) · kk Уикисөздік (free multilingual online dictionary) · nds Wikiwöörbook (free multilingual online dictionary) · lo ວິກິພົດຈະນານຸກົມ (free multilingual online dictionary) · cs Wikislovník (free multilingual online dictionary) · pms Wiktionary (free multilingual online dictionary) · cmn 維基詞典 /维基词典 (free multilingual online dictionary) · br Wikeriadur (free multilingual online dictionary) · jv Wikisastra (free multilingual online dictionary) · fi Wikisanakirja (free multilingual online dictionary) · bcl Wiksyunaryo (free multilingual online dictionary) · mn Викитоль (free multilingual online dictionary) · te విక్షనరీ (free multilingual online dictionary) · tr Vikisözlük (free multilingual online dictionary) · ga Vicífhoclóir (free multilingual online dictionary) · tk Wikisözlük (free multilingual online dictionary) · ja ウィクショナリー (free multilingual online dictionary) · bla Ikkamí'poyssináákia'tsisi (free multilingual online dictionary) · ta விக்சனரி (free multilingual online dictionary) · vi Wiktionary (free multilingual online dictionary) · my ဝစ်ရှင်နရီ (free multilingual online dictionary) · el Βικιλεξικό (free multilingual online dictionary) · he וִיקִימִלּוֹן \ ויקימילון (free multilingual online dictionary) · oc Wikiccionari (free multilingual online dictionary) · ko 위키낱말사전 (free multilingual online dictionary) · et Vikisõnaraamat (free multilingual online dictionary) · szl Wikcjōnorz (free multilingual online dictionary) · vo Vükivödabuk (free multilingual online dictionary) · be Вікісло́ўнік (free multilingual online dictionary) · mk Викире́чник (free multilingual online dictionary) · da Wiktionary (free multilingual online dictionary) · az Vikilüğət (free multilingual online dictionary) · la Victiōnārium (free multilingual online dictionary) · is Wikiorðabók (free multilingual online dictionary) · mr विक्षनरी (free multilingual online dictionary)