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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary with Audio

API Product Description

The Eleventh Edition of America's best-selling dictionary features more than 225,000 clear and precise definitions and newly added words and meanings. More than 100,000 audio pronunciations and 42,000 usage examples. Includes Foreign Words and Phrases, and Biographical Names and Geographical Names.

Data features available in this reference:

• Definitions
• Examples
• Etymologies
• Synonym and Usage paragraphs
• Pronunciation symbols
• Audio pronunciations
• Illustrations
• Spelling suggestions

Formats available:

• XML
• JSON (Coming soon)

Query options:

• Keyword: main headword

API Request URL

XML: http://www.dictionaryapi.com/api/v1/references/collegiate/xml/hypocrite?key=[YOUR KEY GOES HERE]

Example XML Response

<entry id="hypocrite"> <ew>hypocrite</ew> <hw>hyp*o*crite</hw> <sound> <wav>hypocr02.wav</wav> </sound> <pr>ˈhi-pə-ˌkrit</pr> <fl>noun</fl> <et>Middle English <it>ypocrite,</it> from Anglo-French, from Late Latin <it>hypocrita,</it> from Greek <it>hypokritēs</it> actor, hypocrite, from <it>hypokrinesthai</it> </et> <def> <date>13th century</date> <sn>1</sn> <dt>:a person who puts on a false appearance of <d_link>virtue</d_link> or religion</dt> <sn>2</sn> <dt>:a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings</dt> </def> <uro> <ure>hypocrite</ure> <fl>adjective</fl> </uro> </entry>

Documentation

• XML tag description
• DTD
• Example XSL for converting XML to HTML (Coming soon)
• Audio Pronunciations and Illustration APIs

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