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Wordnet has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

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Noun
1

any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet

"The developer chose to integrate a commercial wordnet into her NLP pipeline because it provided the most comprehensive synonym sets for sentiment analysis."

2

a machine-readable lexical database organized by meanings; developed at Princeton University

"The linguist spent hours querying wordnet to verify that her corpus accurately reflected the semantic relationships defined in the Princeton database."

3

A semantically structured lexical database.

"The linguistics professor explained that WordNet serves as a semantically structured lexical database for organizing English words by their meanings and relationships."

Proper Noun
1

A particular wordnet, a semantically structured lexical database, for the English language at Princeton University.

"The linguistics professor downloaded the standard WordNet from Princeton to analyze how synonyms are grouped in their corpus study."

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