One real word, its part of speech and a plain definition. A fixed 366-word rotation, so everyone who opens this page on the same day gets the same word. No signup, nothing to install.
The rotation is 366 words drawn from the same 1,383-word set the app ships, in a fixed order. The word shown is decided by the date in UTC, not by who you are or how many times you have visited. Nothing is tracked and nothing is stored.
Where these definitions come from. Most of Vocabdrift’s definitions come from WordNet 3.0, created by Princeton University and used under Princeton’s license, which requires this notice, including the disclaimer below, on every copy: this software and database is provided by Princeton University; permission to use, copy, modify and distribute it is granted royalty-free provided this copyright notice and the following statements appear on all copies. WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. This software and database is provided “as is” and Princeton University makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, including no warranty of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose, and no warranty that use of the software, database or documentation will not infringe any third-party patent, copyright, trademark or other right. Princeton’s name may not be used in advertising or publicity for this app.
A smaller set of entries, mostly recent words WordNet’s dataset predates, like “gaslight,” “doomscroll,” “deepfake,” and “cosplay”, are adapted from Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org), used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). Definitions adapted from Wiktionary contributors.
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