MetaGlossary.com - The Comprehensive Dictionary

It happens all the time: you’re making your daily news rounds, and come across a word that boggles your mind. Now you could blithely ignore it or pretend to grasp its meaning. Of course you don’t learn anything that way and you miss out on having some killer vocab to toss at your friends. Your next option is to look it up using your handy desktop dictionary widget. Problem is, sometimes it simply doesn’t serve. Most standard dictionaries give you outdated meanings, or they don’t have what you’re looking for. MetaGlossary goes beyond ordinary online references; it scours the web for precise meanings and current definitions. It gives you results, fairly comprehensive ones at that. MetaGlossary even organizes meanings based on topic and usage. So for your most specific queries about jargon, acronyms, phrases, MetaGlossary is the place to go. It’s free to use and there’s a Firefox Search plug-in.

"Meta" means beyond, more comprehensive, or more highly organized, and with respect to other dictionaries and glossaries, MetaGlossary is all these things. MetaGlossary harvests definitions from the entire web, the world's largest, constantly-updated repository of information. Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day. MetaGlossary is as dynamic as the web, offering the most current information out there on the most contemporary topics. However, unlike other search engines, MetaGlossary is able to precisely extract the meanings of terms and phrases from the often frustratingly unmanageable mass of information on the web. It provides you with concise, direct explanations for terms and phrases, not just endless links to sift through in search of a comprehensive definition.”

MetaGlossary is a much needed tool. Often times the results you’ll get when searching for meanings are cluttered and hard to sift through. It’s especially useful for students who want to flex their vocab and for anyone wondering what that term they just read is all about. There aren’t any fancy tricks either. It’s simple and practical.

As with any upstart, the question is, how will MetaGlossary make itself known? Just how precise are its results? How will it make a profit?