LEXICAL DATABASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lexical database mean? 

• LEXICAL DATABASE (noun)
  The noun LEXICAL DATABASE has 1 sense:

1. a database of information about words

  Familiarity information: LEXICAL DATABASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEXICAL DATABASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A database of information about words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lexical database" is a kind of...):

computer database; electronic database; electronic information service; on-line database ((computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lexical database"):

electronic dictionary; machine readable dictionary; MRD (a machine-readable version of a standard dictionary; organized alphabetically)

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

Instance hyponyms:

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