webster-rs

A Rust library containing an offline version of webster's dictionary.

Add to Cargo.toml

webster = 0.3.0

Simple example:

fn main() {
    let word = "silence";

    let definition = webster::dictionary(word).unwrap();

    println!("{} definition: {}", word, definition);
}

The definitions are not great but they'll do for simple projects if you need an open source local dictionary API.

This library uses the dictionary.json file from adambom's dictionary adapted from Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary.

Runtime Decompression

In an effort to reduce binary size (naive storage weighs 9mb), the dictionary is stored in a compressed binary format in the executable (4mb) and then decompressed upon runtime access. The runtime container provides O(log n) access complexity and access time (anecdotally) faster than a BTreeMap.

License

The works in this repository are licensed under the MIT License, with the exception of the contents of dictionary.json, which are licensed under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License:

From Project Gutenberg:

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