English Dictionary Gateway

About This Service

Complementary Learning Tools

Direct Query Endpoints

About This Service

This dictionary gateway aggregates high-quality linguistic data from trusted sources. The Definitions and Definition Examples sections draw content from both the Free Dictionary API and WordNik API, while the Real Examples section showcases authentic usage samples exclusively from the WordNik API's extensive corpus. This combination provides you with complete information about word meanings and contextual usage.

Features and Resources

Definitions: Look up comprehensive word meanings from multiple dictionary sources
Definition Examples: Explore how words are used in context with curated examples
Real Examples: Discover authentic usage examples from various publications and sources
Personal Examples: Build your own English example sentence dictionary from your text. This tool extracts words and their contextual sentences, allowing you to quickly retrieve all sentences containing a specific word when needed.

Note: For optimal learning experience, all words' details (whether viewing, downloading, or copying) are provided in descending order of word frequency. This helps prioritize more commonly used words first.

For English Learners

Learning a language is a journey of consistent progress. Every word you look up, every definition you understand, and every example you study builds your foundation in English. Remember that vocabulary development happens one word at a time—your dedication today opens doors to greater fluency tomorrow. Keep exploring, keep learning, and celebrate each step forward on your language journey!

Complementary Learning Tools

Enhance your vocabulary learning experience with these complementary tools that work seamlessly with the English Dictionary Gateway:

Immersive Translate: A powerful bilingual translation extension that creates side-by-side translations for websites, PDFs, EPUB eBooks, and even video subtitles. Perfect for language learners who want to compare English text with their native language.
欧路翻译 (Lulu): A comprehensive browser extension that enables word translation with hover functionality, webpage translation, and supports vocabulary building with features for saving and reviewing new words.
NaturalReader: An AI text-to-speech tool with realistic voices across multiple languages. Listen to dictionary examples to improve pronunciation and comprehension while building listening skills.
Speechify: A premium text-to-speech reader with natural-sounding voices that lets you listen to any text at adjustable speeds. Ideal for auditory learners and for practicing listening comprehension with dictionary examples.
讯飞有声 (Xunfei YouSheng): A sophisticated text-to-speech application by iFlytek featuring nearly 100 natural-sounding AI voices. It can read webpages, documents, text, images, books, and novels—perfect for improving pronunciation and listening comprehension while learning new vocabulary.
Gaminik: A real-time screen translator that automatically converts text in games, comics, images, and more. Ideal for English learners who encounter unfamiliar words while gaming or reading digital content—look up the translations instantly, then use the Dictionary Gateway to explore deeper meanings and examples.

Using these tools alongside the English Dictionary Gateway creates a comprehensive learning environment where you can look up words, understand their meanings through examples, hear their pronunciation, and see translations—all working together to accelerate your English language acquisition.

Direct Query Endpoints

You can directly query our dictionary service using these specialized endpoints:

Definitions: https://zealy.site/endic/definitions?ws=your,words
Definition Examples: https://zealy.site/endic/defexamples?ws=your,words
Wordnik Examples: https://zealy.site/endic/wnexamples?ws=your,words

Add &vb parameter to any endpoint for verbose mode (e.g., ?ws=word&vb). In verbose mode, each definition and example will be prefixed with the queried word, making it easier to identify the topic word when reviewing content, especially useful when listening to content rather than reading it.

Size Control Parameters

Control the amount of output with the following parameters:

For Definition endpoints: &dn=N&en=M where dn limits the number of definitions per word and en limits examples per definition
For Example endpoints: &en=M where en limits the number of examples per word
Example: /endic/definitions?ws=happy&dn=2&en=1 will show at most 2 definitions for "happy", each with at most 1 example

Default values are 100 for both parameters. Minimum is 0, maximum is 200. When more items are available than requested, the system randomly selects from the available content, providing diverse examples on each request. This randomization applies to all viewing, copying, and downloading operations.

Replace your,words with the word or words you want to look up. Multiple words should be separated by commas.