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Wordnik

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Wordnik (formerly Alphabeticall), seeks to provide information about all English words, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known.

In addition to definitions, wordnik provides:

• An example sentence—even if we’ve only found one sentence for a word, we’ll show it to you. (And we’ll show you where the sentence came from, too!
• Related words: not just synonyms and antonyms, but words that are used in the same contexts. (For instance, cheeseburger, milkshake, and doughnut are not synonyms, but they show up in the same kinds of sentences.)
• Images tagged by our friends at Flickr: want to know what a “pout” looks like? We’ll show you.

• Statistics: how rare is “tintinnabulation”?

• An audio pronunciation—and you can record your own!

It was started by lexicographer Erin McKean and investors Roger McNamee and Steve Anderson

Milestones

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  Wordnik added Jim Pitkow as Advisor. (1/1/09)
  Posted 9/21/11 at 3:23pm
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  Wordnik added Joe Hyrkin as CEO. (3/1/11)
  Posted 4/19/11 at 8:00am
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  Wordnik added John McGrath as Director of Product.
  Posted 2/19/11 at 10:00pm
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  Wordnik added Tony Tam as VPE, Technical Co-Founder. (3/1/09)
  Posted 2/25/10 at 11:43pm
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  Wordnik added Grant Barrett as Editorial Director.
  Posted 10/23/09 at 10:03am
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  Wordnik added Erin McKean as Founder. (2/29/08)
  Posted 10/14/09 at 3:09pm
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  Wordnik received $8M in Series C funding. (7/25/11)
  Posted 7/25/11 at 5:45am via allthingsd.com
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  Wordnik received $3.7M in Unattributed funding. (7/8/09)
  Posted 7/9/09 at 1:26pm via paidcontent.org
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  Wordnik received $1M in Series A funding. (1/1/08)
  Posted 3/26/09 at 2:42pm via pewnews.com

Videos

Screenshots

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Above: Alphabeticall.com
Uploaded: 3/26/09

Above: Wordnik Search
Uploaded: 7/6/09

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Sources

1. pewnews.com [edit]
2. Online Dictionary Site Wordnik Gets $3.7 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
3. Google+’s Horowitz Talks About Joining Board of Wordnik, As Online Dictionary Site Garners $8M More in Funding (Video) (allthingsd.com) [edit]