The ''Collaborative International Dictionary of English'' (''CIDE'') was derived from the 1913 ''

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version of the set of files containing the electronic version of the CIDE. There are several derivative versions of this dictionary on the Internet, in some cases reformatted or provided with an interface: *

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version of CIDE presented in the Extensible Markup Language (

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). Online English dictionaries {{dictionary-stub fr:GCIDE#Collaborative_International_Dictionary_of_English