webster-rs

A Rust library containing an offline version of webster's dictionary.

use webster::dictionary;

fn main() {
    let word = dictionary("computer").unwrap();

    println!("computer definition: {}", word);
}

The definitions are not great but they'll do for simple projects if you need an open source local dictionary API.

This library uses the dictionary.json file from adambom's dictionary adapted from Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary.

License

The works in this repository are licensed under the MIT License, with the exception of the contents of dictionary.json, which are licensed under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License:

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