English Language Dictionary api

Question

Is there a public API which would let me lookup definitions for words ? I've been searching for this for a bit but it's getting mixed up with the dictionary datastructure. I'm planing on using it in a c# app.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are language agnostic, you could try

Ruby WordNet

http://deveiate.org/projects/Ruby-WordNet/

and check out the WordNet project in general,

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

for .NET...

http://opensource.ebswift.com/WordNet.Net/