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Does anyone know of a web service for finding word definitions that could return the results in JSON?

I found http://words.bighugelabs.com/api.php but nothing was found for definitions / dictionary.

Ideally, I would take a dictionary file and create my own API for it, but this is for demonstration and we need something short term that can be called from a javascript function.

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wiktionary.org provides APIs like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=Television&format=json


returns

    {
       "query": {"searchinfo": {"totalhits": 208862},
       "search": [{ 
           "ns": 0, 
           "title": "Television", 
           "snippet": "<span class='searchmatch'>Television<\/span> (TV) is a widely used telecommunication  medium  for transmitting and receiving moving images , either monochromatic  (\"black  <b>...<\/b> ",
           "size": 28228, 
           "wordcount": 3566, 
           "timestamp": "2009-10-02T15:09:56Z"},
...
       ]},
       "query-continue": {"search": {"sroffset":10}}
    }
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I think this is what you are looking for



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Not sure if it will suit your needs, but answer.com has webmaster tools that offer a variety of services, including dictionary search. Don't know if anyone can be called from javascript.

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In no time, you can set up a reverse proxy on your server that allows AJAX to consume your favorite dictionary site, and then "clear" the definitions from the returned document. This is obviously not a long-term solution, but at one time, you probably won't run into problems.

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It is a web service and several dictionaries:

http://services.aonaware.com/DictService/DictService.asmx

PS I missed the JSON part of your question.

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