Online Dictionary Site Wordnik Raises $3.7 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 8, 2009 - 9:12am.

Chicago - Wordnik, an online dictionary website, has raised $3.7 million in venture capital financing, from nine investors including Elevation Partners' Roger McNamee and Baseline Ventures' Steve Anderson, PaidContent reported, citing a regulatory filing.

The Chicago-based company was founded by Erin McKean, former editor in chief for American Dictionaries at Oxford University Press.

In addition to definitions, Wordnik integrates data on words from sources including Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, Twitter and Flickr, and also allows user-generated postings on word meanings and context.

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http://www.wordnik.com