Need a thesaurus database

dictionary database thesaurus
Daniel picture Daniel · Feb 25, 2010 · Viewed 9.6k times · Source

Is there an open source thesaurus available for download? It can be in any format. Preferably not from a 1915 dictionary. I need one to merge into a database application.

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Livio picture Livio · Jun 29, 2010

There are a number of opensource thesaurus, in several languages, available here: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries

I used some of them to build a web service providing thesaurus service: http://thesaurus.altervista.org/

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