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This is the English Wiktionary: it aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English. For example, see dictionnaire (a French word). In order to find a French definition of that word, you would visit the equivalent page in the French Wiktionary. For more information, see our Multilingual coordination page and Multilingual statistics.

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1,000+: Shqip (Albanian) • Հայերեն (Armenian) • Asturianu (Asturian) • Azərbaycan (Azeri) • Català (Catalan) • Corsu (Corsican) • Hrvatski (Croatian) • Česká (Czech) • Dansk (Danish) • Esperanto • Frysk (West Frisian) • Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) • Avañe'ẽ (Guaraní) • עברית (Hebrew) • हिन्दी (Hindi) • Interlingua • Gaeilge (Irish) • Kaszëbsczi (Kashubian) • қазақша (Kazakh) • ລາວ (Lao) • Latina (Latin) • Bahasa Melayu (Malay) • മലയാളം (Malayalam) • Bân-lâm-gú (Min Nan) • Occitan • Englisc (Old English) • Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon) • Simple English • Slovenčina (Slovak) • Slovenščina (Slovene) • Obersorbisch (Upper Sorbian) • seSotho (Southern Sotho) • Kiswahili (Swahili) • Tatarça / Татарча (Tatar) • ไทย (Thai) • Українська (Ukrainian) • اردو (Urdu)

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100+: አማርኛ (Amharic) • Aragonés (Aragonese) • Euskara (Basque) • Беларуская (Belarusian) • Bosanski (Bosnian) • ភាសាខ្មែរ (Cambodian) • ᏣᎳᎩ (Cherokee) • Føroyskt (Faroese) • ქართული (Georgian) • ગુજરાતી (Gujarati) • Interlingue • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) • Ikinyarwanda (Kinyarwanda) • Кыргызча (Kyrgyz) • Latviešu (Latvian) • Македонски (Macedonian) • मराठी (Marathi) • Монгол (Mongolian) • Nahuatl • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Panjabi) • Runa Simi (Quechua) • Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) • سنڌي (Sindhi) • Basa Sunda (Sundanese) • Tagalog • ትግርኛ (Tigrinya) • Xitsonga (Tsonga) • تركمن / Туркмен (Turkmen) • Oyghurque / ئۇيغۇرچە (Uyghur) • Cymraeg (Welsh) • Wollof (Wolof) • ייִדיש (Yiddish) • isiZulu (Zulu)

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