When typing "define ..." into the Web giant's search engine, users now get the word definition, sample sentences, synonyms, origins, translations, spoken response, and more.
by Dara Kerr
When I was growing up and didn't know what a word meant, my parents would send me to the bookshelf to look up the word up in a hardbound dictionary. The youth of today would laugh at this notion.
Online dictionaries now seem to be the go-to for finding word definitions. And, Google announced Thursday that it's making this process even easier.
In Google Search's revamped dictionary, besides the good old-fashioned word definition, people can now get sample sentences, synonyms, translations, spoken responses for words, and more.
For example, when a user types in "define artful," they get the definition, which is "clever or skillful, typically in a crafty or cunning way." They also get a sentence, "her artful wiles," along with synonyms (sly), and antonyms (ingenious). Users can also see the origin and use of the word over time, and also translate it into more than 60 languages.
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