A Facebook Page For Every Word: Wordnik

Oh, the things the net enables.
When was the last time you looked at an online dictionary or thesaurus that helped you really understand a word? These things read as though someone’s afraid that I’ll respond with a lawsuit if they get loose with a few examples and context.
What we need is a Facebook page for every word. Let me approach a word’s meaning through different angles, and snapshots of where it’s been and other words with whom it hangs out. Enter Wordnik!
Each word gets its page. You get:
**Formal definitions from several dictionaries.
**Usage from disparate written sources, ie the word as used in literature from various historical periods.
**Recent real-time usage from Twitter.
**Related words often used in the same context. More than synonyms and antonyms.
**Images from Flickr that have the word in question as a tag.
**Statistics: how often you will tend to see a different word. (I have my doubts on this one… hang out in *certain* neighborhoods and you might hear a word like ‘supercilious’ a LOT more than you might prefer…..)
Even if you aren’t a student, journalist, or some kind of an uber-blogger, you have to take a look at Wordnik.

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