---
name: "wnintro"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wordnet"
version: "1.7-6"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wnintro"
---

# wnintro(1)

WordNet user commands

## NAME

wnintro - WordNet user commands

## SYNOPSIS

**wn** - command line interface to WordNet database

**wnb** - window based WordNet browser

## DESCRIPTION

This section of the *WordNet Reference Manual* contains manual pages that describe commands available with the various WordNet system packages.

The WordNet interfaces  **wn**(1WN) and **wnb**(1WN) allow the user to search the WordNet database and display the information textually.

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

- **WNHOME**

  Base directory for WordNet.  Unix default is  **/usr/local/wordnet1.7**, PC default is **C:\\wn17**.

- **WNSEARCHDIR**

  Directory in which the WordNet database has been installed.  Unix default is **WNHOME/dict**, PC default is **WNHOME\\dict**.

## SEE ALSO

**wnintro**(3WN), **wnintro**(5WN), **wnintro**(7WN).

Fellbaum, C. (1998), ed. *"WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database"*. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

## AVAILABILITY

WordNet has a World Wide Web site at **http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/∼wn/**.  From this web site users can learn about the WordNet project, run several different interfaces to the WordNet database, and download various WordNet system packages and *"Five Papers on WordNet"*.