Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- home can be used as a noun in the sense of "One's own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace." or "One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt." or "The place where a person was raised. Childhood or parental home. Home of one's parents or guardian." or "The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections." or "The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat." or "A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, especially, the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul." or "In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal." or "Home plate." or "The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player." or "The landing page of a website; the site's home page"
- home can be used as a verb in the sense of "(usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something."
- home can be used as a adjective in the sense of "Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts." or "Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust."
- home can be used as a adverb in the sense of "To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home." or "Close; closely." or "To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length." or "In one's place of residence; at home" or "Into the goal."
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
