Open English Wordnet 2024

This is the 2024 edition of Open English Wordnet

Major changes include:

• More gendered terms and the removal of gendered language
• A new hierarchy for verbs including many new links
• Definitions and examples now use Unicode quotes and similar symbols
• Many, many typos and minor errors fixed
• Simplified and cleaned scripts to support building resource

Download links:

• GWA XML: https://en-word.net/static/english-wordnet-2024.xml.gz
• RDF: https://en-word.net/static/english-wordnet-2024.ttl.gz
• WNDB: https://en-word.net/static/english-wordnet-2024.zip (for legacy applications)

What's Changed

• merge.py: Make result independent of filesystem order by @nbraud in #982
• Fix #988: correct 'duodenum' misspellings by @goodmami in #989
• Consistent definition of adjectival numerals by @jmccrae in #974
• Remove 'only if' as it is not lexical by @jmccrae in #998
• Add new senses of 'email' by @jmccrae in #997
• Add 'good evening' by @jmccrae in #996
• Add synset for 'sunny' by @jmccrae in #995
• Update 'plus' by @jmccrae in #994
• Add link "rose" =hypernym=> "flower" by @jmccrae in #992
• Merge senses of 'climbable' by @jmccrae in #993
• Update definition of Ritz by @jmccrae in #999
• Move example. by @jmccrae in #1001
• Update definition of 'cake' by @jmccrae in #1010
• Update definition of nonprofessional by @jmccrae in #1009
• Add MC to synset for emcee by @jmccrae in #1008
• Add synset for water skiing by @jmccrae in #1007
• Fix quotes by @1313ou in #1016
• Update definitions of a.m./p.m. by @jmccrae in #1014
• Fix meanings of 'wight' by @jmccrae in #1013
• Typos and misspellings in synset examples by @1313ou in #1017
• Use EM dash (—, unicode x2014) instead of double hyphen (--) … by @x-englishwordnet in #1019
• Replace three (or faulty 2) dots with ellipsis character '…' unicode x2026 by @x-englishwordnet in #1020
• WordNet Quoting by @1313ou in #1021
• Etc requires trailing dot by @1313ou in #1022
• Fix spelling by @1313ou in #1024
• Align quoting, fix def/example, punctuation by @1313ou in #1025
• Quoting with single quotes by @1313ou in #1027
• Change quoting-closing apostrophe to ´ by @1313ou in #1026
• Typos and misspellings by @1313ou in #1053
• Implement merge of senses of 'individual' by @jmccrae in #1047
• Add 'green' as synonym of 'ecofriendly' by @jmccrae in #1048
• Add 'honest man' by @jmccrae in #1050
• Merge senses of 'discontinue' by @jmccrae in #1051
• Fix hypernym of 'fracture' by @jmccrae in #1052
• Fixes: typos, spellings, spaces, punctuation by @1313ou in #1061
• Remove 'disagreeable woman' and 'slovenly woman' by @jmccrae in #1049
• Update incorrect hypernyms of male words by @jmccrae in #1070
• Split examples by @1313ou in #1072
• Simplify senses of 'suffer' by @jmccrae in #1069
• Reverse hypernym link 'beat' => 'surpass' by @jmccrae in #1067
• Merge sense of 'suck'/'stink' and add 'rock'/'rule' by @jmccrae in #1066
• Bag of example fixes by @1313ou in #1077
• Make 'businessman' a man by @jmccrae in #1074
• Delete duplicate/poorly defined sense of 'open' by @jmccrae in #1065
• Unnatural semicolon by @1313ou in #1084
• Quote to focus on word form by @1313ou in #1085
• Remove duplicate sense of 'climb up' by @jmccrae in #1064
• Add new sense of 'drive in' by @jmccrae in #1063
• Remove entries for 'be well'/'be full' by @jmccrae in #1062
• Change gendered use of pronouns in definitions by @jmccrae in #1083
• Remove unattested sense of 'ignore' by @jmccrae in #1087
• Lengthen overly short female definitions by @jmccrae in #1089
• Update definition of 'peer' by @jmccrae in #1090
• Remove link from 'boss' to 'man' by @jmccrae in #1091
• Make burgher gender-neutral by @jmccrae in #1092
• non-Christian priests by @jmccrae in #1093
• Change hypernym of recruit by @jmccrae in #1094
• Change hypernym of vice chairman by @jmccrae in #1095
• Remove 'wonder X' senses as compositional by @jmccrae in #1088
• Fix some more grammar errors by @jmccrae in #1106
• Fix hypernym hierarchy of 'Scout' and related terms by @jmccrae in #1105
• Clean up of scripts by @jmccrae in #1096
• Make sure that no instances have hyponyms by @jmccrae in #1097
• Extra tools references by @1313ou in #1111
• Generation of escaped XML IDs, escaping of colon by @1313ou in #1109
• Add female and gender-neutral variations of terms by @jmccrae in #1108
• Updated and improved Verb Hierarchy by @jmccrae in #1086
• Add some commas to improve readability of examples by @1313ou in #1117
• Minor grammatical fixes in examples by @1313ou in #1116
• Unnatural and unrecorded hyphen in a hair's breadth; conform to example by @1313ou in #1115
• Fix grave-acute quotes to lquote-rquote by @1313ou in #1114
• Add new text describing transitive and intransitive verbs by @jmccrae in #1118
• Master is only male in some senses by @jmccrae in #1119
• Add new synsets from UD_GUM by @jmccrae in #1120
• Remove duplicate ILI links by @jmccrae in #1122
• Fix two small validation issues by @jmccrae in #1124
• Lemmas with '%' by @jmccrae in #1125
• 2024 Release Candidate by @jmccrae in #1112
• Add a few missing ILI links by @jmccrae in #1129

New Contributors

• @nbraud made their first contribution in #982
• @1313ou made their first contribution in #1016
• @x-englishwordnet made their first contribution in #1019

Full Changelog: 2023-edition...2024-edition