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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being, beingness, existence, organism,
1. NOUN. (being)
a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
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benthos, heterotroph, person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul, animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna, plant, flora, plant life, conspecific, denizen, amphidiploid, diploid, haploid, heteroploid, polyploid, animalcule, animalculum, microorganism, aerobe, anaerobe, hybrid, crossbreed, cross, polymorph, relative, congener, congenator, plankton, nekton, parasite, host, commensal, myrmecophile, eukaryote, eucaryote, prokaryote, procaryote, zooid, clone, clon, atavist, throwback, individual, mascot, mutant, mutation, variation, sport, sitter, stander, utterer, vocalizer, vocaliser, nonvascular organism, relict, saprophyte, saprophytic organism, saprobe, katharobe,
2. NOUN. (being)
the state or fact of existing
"a point of view gradually coming into being"
"laws in existence for centuries"
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actuality, eternity, timelessness, timeless existence, preexistence, coexistence, subsistence, presence, life, animation, life, living, aliveness, life, transcendence, transcendency, possibility, possibleness,
