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LEXICAL DATABASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A database of information about words
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("lexical database" is a kind of...):
computer database; electronic database; electronic information service; on-line database ((computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lexical database"):
electronic dictionary; machine readable dictionary; MRD (a machine-readable version of a standard dictionary; organized alphabetically)
wordnet (any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet)
Instance hyponyms:
Princeton WordNet; WordNet (a machine-readable lexical database organized by meanings; developed at Princeton University)
