Your best bet is likely to be to go to the Grease Pit at Wiktionary. Someone had a similar request recently, I think and seemed to get some help. This list is rarely used.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones@gmail.comwrote:
I want a list of all English words + a brief definition of each [1].
I tried downloading enwiktionary-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2, but this is way too much: it includes foreign words, word roots/origins, and a lot more that I don't need.
How can I extract just a word list w/ definitions from wiktionary?
I know about mthes and scowl, but wiktionary supercedes these, yes?
[1] I realize this isn't well-defined: I'll settle for an approximation
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