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
SYNONYMS: Did you mean?
ache, hanker, languish, long, pine, yearn, yen,
1. VERB. (yearn)
have affection for
feel tenderness for
More Generic:
2. VERB. (yearn)
have a desire for something or someone who is not present
"She ached for a cigarette"
"I am pining for my lover"
Derived:
More Generic:
More Specific:
die,
3. VERB. (yearn)
desire strongly or persistently
Derived:
longer, thirster, yearner, longing, yearning, longer, thirster, yearner, longing, yearning, hankering, yen,
