Goals of the package

[mine-cetinkaya-rundel]

Create a tibble with rows as words from the English dictionary and columns

• word: the word
• type: noun, adjective, adverb, etc. -- or maybe we need binary columns, since a given word can be many of these
• phonetic: phonetic pronunciation -- this can be tricky to encode?
• definition: either a list column (ideally), or only the first definition (if the first seems too complicated / not worth it)
• picture: if there is a picture linked from the dictionary, can we get the URL for it?

Do we need anything else? Singular/plural is another entry that tends to be on dictionary entries.

[kathy0305]

Add columns:

• synonyms: words that have the same or nearly the same meaning
• antonyms: words that have opposite meanings

Should we limit the number of synonyms and antonyms , or do we provide as much as possible?

[mine-cetinkaya-rundel]

@kathy0305 good suggestions!

As for limiting number of synonyms and antonyms listed or providing as much as possible, we might use the same approach we're using for number of definitions. If listing multiple, I think list columns would be useful (as opposed to just listing them comma separated or something). So I propose having the goal of listing multiple, but sticking to just the first one listed if that's getting tricky to resolve, at least for the first version of the package.