English-Dictionary-Enhanced is a node.js module that makes word meanings, relations, and more available in a package.

About

This package uses the en-wordnet package to make words, their meanings, and relationships available in your node.js project. It also provides helper functions for diversified means of accessing the bibliographical data.

Quick Start

You can install the package via bun or npm or yarn, along with one of the wordnet databases:

bun init
bun add -d @types/bun
bun install english-dictionary-enhanced
vi index.ts

After adding it, you can initialize the dictionary, like this:

const wordnet = require("en-wordnet").default;
import Dictionary from "english-dictionary-enhanced";

const start = async () => {
    const dictionary = new Dictionary(wordnet.get("3.0"));
    await dictionary.init();

    let result = dictionary.searchFor(["yet"]);
    console.log(result);

    result = dictionary.searchFor(["preposterous"]);
    console.log(result.get("preposterous").get("adjective"));
    console.log(JSON.stringify(result.get("preposterous").get("adjective"), null, '\t'));

    result = dictionary.searchSimpleFor(["preposterous"]);
    console.log(result);

    result = dictionary.wordsStartingWith("prestig");
    console.log(result)

    result = dictionary.wordsEndingWith("sterous");
    console.log(result)

    result = dictionary.wordsIncluding("grating");
    console.log(result);

    result = dictionary.wordsWithCharsIn("toaddndyrnrtssknwfsaregte");
    console.log(result)

    result = dictionary.wordsUsingAllCharactersFrom("indonesia");
    console.log(result);
};

await start()

export {}

Get started!

bun run index.ts

There are some more examples here.

The dictionary may take about 2000ms to load the data into memory, it doesn't use an external database/redis yet (nor is that planned, since most queries are fast enough, and the underlying data doesn't change probably more than once a year).

As of version 1.2.0, most lookups are very fast:

bun test v1.1.3 (2615dc74)

src/index.test.ts:
✓ Test the index file for English-Dictionary-Enhanced > Test initialization [4.28ms]
✓ Test that all POS are indexed > searchFor(["smart"])