Recently, I was working on a project which required meanings of some words. Is there any API in java which I can use to get the meaning of a word? In Python, there used to be a module called PyDictionary:
from PyDictionary import PyDictionary
dict = PyDictionary()
print(dict.meaning("boat"))
Can something similar be done in order to find the meaning of a word using Java?
If there is no restriction or constraints, you can go for dictionary API as provided by many companies. It is a rest call which can be used by any language whether it is python or java. I provide below some links for this. Some apis are free and some are not.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/api/pricing,59,HCA.html
There is also a github project for dictionary, you may be interested to check. https://github.com/shibme/diction
There is also an open source library for word dictionary hosted in sourceforge.net. http://extjwnl.sourceforge.net/