WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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half*, climate, weather, arctic, cyclone, storm, woman, meteorology>, prognostication
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dry land, earth, earthly concern, globe, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma, world, worldly concern,
1. NOUN. (earth)
a connection between an electrical device and the earth (which is a zero voltage)
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2. NOUN. (earth)
the concerns of the world as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
"they consider the church to be independent of the world"
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3. NOUN. (earth)
the abode of mortals (as contrasted with heaven or hell)
"it was hell on earth"
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4. NOUN. (earth)
the 3rd planet from the sun
the planet on which we live
"the Earth moves around the sun"
"he sailed around the world"
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5. NOUN. (earth)
the solid part of the earth''s surface
"the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"
"the earth shook for several minutes"
"he dropped the logs on the ground"
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ground, ground, ground, run aground, ground, run aground, ground, ground, earth, down, shoot down, land, land, set ashore, shore, land, land, put down, bring down, land, set down,
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America, the Americas, archipelago, beachfront, cape, ness, coastal plain, floor, foreland, forest, woodland, timberland, timber, hills, island, isthmus, landmass, mainland, neck, oxbow, peninsula, plain, field, champaign, slash, wonderland,
