A way to receive definitions via terminal. Tested only in Ubuntu

dictionary.py

import requests, sys

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APIKEY = "a2a73e7b926c924fad7001ca3111acd55af2ffabf50eb4ae5" # Taken from their live demo

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def main(word, onlyOne=False):
	r = requests.get("http://api.wordnik.com/v4/word.json/" + word + "/definitions?limit=200&includeRelated=true&sourceDictionaries=wiktionary&useCanonical=false&includeTags=false&api_key=" + APIKEY)

	data = r.json()
	if onlyOne is False:
		for i in range(0, len(data)):
			print str(i+1) + ". [" + pos(data[i]['partOfSpeech']) + "] " + data[i]['text']
	else:
		num = onlyOne - 1
		if len(data) < num:
			num = 0
		print word + ". " + data[num]['partOfSpeech'] +". " + data[num]['text'].encode('ascii','ignore')

def pos(posType):
	types = dict(noun="n", interjection="int", adjective="adj", verb="v")

	if posType in types:
		return types[posType]
	else:
		return posType


if len(sys.argv) < 2:
	print "Usage: dictionary.py word [returnOne]"
	print
	print "returnOne: If set, it will return only one definition. This is useful for piping and TTS."
	print "Example: 'dictionary.py phone 2' returns the second definition of 'phone'"
	quit(1)
elif len(sys.argv) is 2:
	main(sys.argv[1], False)
else:
	main(sys.argv[1], int(sys.argv[2]))