Connect Merriam-Webster Collegiate to Your AI Agent

Provide a word and the sentence where you found it. AI can explain the relevant senses and keep dictionary content separate from its own examples.

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Try a Merriam-Webster Collegiate Task

Copy a prompt into your agent with the oo Skill installed. Add your page links and source notes before running it.

oo Skill Merriam-Webster Collegiate

Explain a Word in Context

Look up a term and use the matching entries to explain senses relevant to your sentence.

/oo Merriam-Webster Collegiate: Look up [English word] in Merriam-Webster Collegiate. Explain the matching senses for this sentence [sentence], label any examples you create, and report spelling suggestions separately if no entry matches.

Start Working with Merriam-Webster Collegiate

  1. Install OOMOL

    Set up oo CLI and the oo Skill in your agent.

    Install OOMOL →
  2. Connect Merriam-Webster Collegiate

    Connect with a Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary API key.

    Connect Merriam-Webster Collegiate →
  3. Give Your Agent a Task

    Use /oo with the pages to read, the changes to make, and where to save the result.

    Connection Guide →

Choose Your Agent

  • A Merriam-Webster API key for the Collegiate Dictionary.

Merriam-Webster Collegiate Tools

Merriam-Webster Collegiate lookup returns matching entries or spelling suggestions. The entry provides a reference for explaining English word meaning in a supplied context.

Read Entries and Suggestions

Look up a term and retrieve matching dictionary entries or spelling suggestions.

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Lookup Word

Look up a word in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and return matching entries or spelling suggestions.

collegiate.lookup_word

Frequently Asked Questions

Can AI choose the sense that fits my sentence?

Yes. Supply the sentence with the word and ask it to explain the choice using the dictionary entry.

What happens if the spelling does not match an entry?

The lookup may return spelling suggestions. Ask for those separately and choose a term before looking it up again.

Are all explanation examples from the dictionary?

Ask the assistant to distinguish examples in the entry from examples it writes for your context.

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