@MonicaCellio
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I don't know whether you're familiar with
Wiktionary, Wikipedia's sister dictionary Web site. It categorizes its entries (the same way Wikipedia puts its articles in categories, listed at the bottom of the article, as you may have noticed). One way it categorizes is by topic of the referent: if the referent of the word in question is a cat (e.g., the word 'cat' or 'Persian'), [cont'd]