Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
The Moby lexicon project is complete and has been place into the public domain. Use, sell, rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform. Placing this material on internal or public servers is also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide. You can verify the public domain status by contacting Grady Ward 3449 Martha Ct. Arcata, CA 95521-4884 daedal@myrealbox.com >>The project is available either as a complete distribution [26MB] or as set of subprojects:
- Moby Hyphenator
- Moby Language
- Moby Part-of-Speech
- Moby Pronunciator
- Moby Shakespeare
- Moby Thesaurus
- Moby Words
- 185,000 entries fully hyphenated
mhyph.tar.Z [980kB]
- Word lists in five of the world's great languages
mlang.tar.Z [2.3MB]
- 230,000 entries fully described by part(s) of speech, listed in priority order
mpos.tar.Z [1.2MB]
- 175,000 entries fully International Phonetic Alphabet coded
mpron.tar.Z [3.1MB]
- The complete unabridged works of Shakespeare
mshak.tar.Z [2.3MB]
- 30,000 root words, 2.5 million synonyms andrelated words
mthes.tar.Z [12MB]
- 610,000+ words and phrases.
The largest word list in the world
mwords.tar.Z [4.0MB].
A mirror of this information is also available at Project Gutenburg (you need to search for the MOBY project in Gutenberg's database).
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