Open English Wordnet
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Open English Wordnet 2025 (2025-12-31)
The major change this year is the transfer of proper nouns to a new resource called Open English Namenet. As such, this version is available in two flavours 2025 edition, which consists of all the lexical items (common nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) and 2025+ edition, which in addition includes a curated section of proper nouns from Open English Namenet. The coverage of the 2025+ edition is similar to previous releases of OEWN.
| english-wordnet-2025.zip | WNDB | Princeton WordNet DB Format for legacy applications | 9.2 MB |
| english-wordnet-2025.xml.gz | WN-LMF XML | WordNet LMF XML dump (gzipped) | 10.8 MB |
| english-wordnet-2025.ttl.gz | RDF/Turtle | RDF Turtle dump (gzipped) | 16.9 MB |
| english-wordnet-2025-json.zip | JSON | JSON export of the data from GitHub | 9.5 MB |
Open English Wordnet 2025 plus (2025-12-31)
Open English Wordnet 2025 edition plus curated names from Open English Namenet
| english-wordnet-2025-plus.zip | WNDB | Princeton WordNet DB Format for legacy applications | 10.5 MB |
| english-wordnet-2025-plus.xml.gz | WN-LMF XML | WordNet LMF XML dump (gzipped) | 12.3 MB |
| english-wordnet-2025-plus.ttl.gz | RDF/Turtle | RDF Turtle dump (gzipped) | 19.4 MB |
| english-wordnet-2025-plus-json.zip | JSON | JSON export of the data from GitHub | 10.8 MB |
Open English Wordnet 2024 (2024-11-01)
This is the 2024 edition of Open English Wordnet. Major changes include: More gendered terms and the removal of gendered language, A new hierarchy for verbs including many new links, Definitions and examples now use Unicode quotes and similar symbols, Many, many typos and minor errors fixed, Simplified and cleaned scripts to support building resource
| english-wordnet-2024.zip | WNDB | Princeton WordNet DB Format for legacy applications | 10.9 MB |
| english-wordnet-2024.xml.gz | WN-LMF XML | WordNet LMF XML dump (gzipped) | 12.3 MB |
| english-wordnet-2024.ttl.gz | RDF/Turtle | RDF Turtle dump (gzipped) | 17.8 MB |
Open English Wordnet 2023 (2023-10-31)
This is the 2023 version of the Open English WordNet. Major changes include: New modelling for feminine variations, British and American (and other) spelling variations marked, Fixed representation of 'role' words, Included morphosemantic relations, Many further minor improvements
| english-wordnet-2023.zip | WNDB | Princeton WordNet DB Format for legacy applications | 10.9 MB |
| english-wordnet-2023.xml.gz | WN-LMF XML | WordNet LMF XML dump (gzipped) | 12.1 MB |
| english-wordnet-2023.ttl.gz | RDF/Turtle | RDF Turtle dump (gzipped) | 15.2 MB |
Open English Wordnet 2022 (2022-12-31)
This is the 2022 release of Open English WordNet. This incorporates a large number of improvements from our active community, making it the largest and most accurate wordnet for English. You can browse the new version live at https://en-word.net. Major changes: New links and terms from Taboo WordNet, New YAML format adopted, Remove loops in derivations, New synsets/improvements including tablet (computer), automation, homework, señorita (with tilde), platform (at a train station), newsgroup
| english-wordnet-2022.zip | WNDB | Princeton WordNet DB Format for legacy applications | 11.0 MB |
| english-wordnet-2022.xml.gz | WN-LMF XML | WordNet LMF XML dump (gzipped) | 11.9 MB |
| english-wordnet-2022.ttl.gz | RDF/Turtle | RDF Turtle dump (gzipped) | 17.2 MB |
Open English Wordnet 2021 (2021-11-9)
This is the 2021 release of Open English WordNet. This incorporates a large number of improvements from our active community, making it the largest and most accurate wordnet for English. You can browse the new version live at https://en-word.net. Some of the most significant changes: Linking to Wikidata for over 6,000 entries; Inclusion of pronunciation information for nearly 35,000 entries; Homographs (such as 'bass') are now distinct; Incorporation of sentence template information; Adoption of Global WordNet Association v1.1 format; Reorganization of syntactic behaviors to reduce file sizes; Over 150 community contributions.
| english-wordnet-2021.zip | WNDB | Princeton WordNet DB Format for legacy applications | 10.8 MB |
| english-wordnet-2021.xml.gz | WN-LMF XML | WordNet LMF XML dump (gzipped) | 12.8 MB |
| english-wordnet-2021.ttl.gz | RDF/Turtle | RDF Turtle dump (gzipped) | 15.0 MB |
Open English Wordnet 2020 (2020-04-17)
This is the 2020 release of English WordNet. This incorporates ~15,000 changes made over the previous version and large improvements in the structure and model.
| english-wordnet-2020.zip | WNDB | Princeton WordNet DB Format for legacy applications | 11.1 MB |
| english-wordnet-2020.xml.gz | WN-LMF XML | WordNet LMF XML dump (gzipped) | 13.0 MB |
| english-wordnet-2020.ttl.gz | RDF/Turtle | RDF Turtle dump (gzipped) | 15.0 MB |
Open English Wordnet 2019 (2019-04-17)
English WordNet 2019 is the first annual release of this resource. More details are at https://en-word.net/
| english-wordnet-2019.zip | WNDB | Princeton WordNet DB Format for legacy applications | 10.0 MB |
| english-wordnet-2019.xml.gz | WN-LMF XML | WordNet LMF XML dump (gzipped) | 13.3 MB |
| english-wordnet-2019.ttl.gz | RDF/Turtle | RDF Turtle dump (gzipped) | 30.4 MB |