# Default Synonyms
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-synonyms/10393
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 17, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-synonyms/10393 "2013-01-17T15:32:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Treher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Justin_Treher)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-synonyms/10393/1 "2013-01-17T15:32:26Z")
Hi everyone,
Probably a quick answer here, but for all of you FTS experts:
Most FTS products do not contain a default synonym dictionary, correct?
It's up to each installation to derive it's own custom file as it is with
ES, right? Some commercial search solutions that included a supposedly
"robust" thesaurus. I guess that is part of the price/package.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-synonyms/10393/2 "2013-01-17T18:12:20Z")
You can use the default Wordnet dictionary. Lucene, and therefore
Elasticsearch, supports the Wordnet file format.
Synonyms are very context specific. What might work for e-commerce might
not work for a social network.
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Ivan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:32 AM, [jtreher@gmail.com](mailto:jtreher@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Probably a quick answer here, but for all of you FTS experts:
>
> Most FTS products do not contain a default synonym dictionary, correct?
> It's up to each installation to derive it's own custom file as it is with
> ES, right? Some commercial search solutions that included a supposedly
> "robust" thesaurus. I guess that is part of the price/package.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Treher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Justin_Treher)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-synonyms/10393/3 "2013-01-17T19:16:46Z")
Thanks!
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 1:12:20 PM UTC-5, Ivan Brusic wrote:
> You can use the default Wordnet dictionary. Lucene, and therefore
> Elasticsearch, supports the Wordnet file format.
>
> Synonyms are very context specific. What might work for e-commerce might
> not work for a social network.
>
> --
> Ivan
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:32 AM, \<[jtr...@gmail.com](mailto:jtr...@gmail.com) \\> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Probably a quick answer here, but for all of you FTS experts:
> >
> > Most FTS products do not contain a default synonym dictionary, correct?
> > It's up to each installation to derive it's own custom file as it is with
> > ES, right? Some commercial search solutions that included a supposedly
> > "robust" thesaurus. I guess that is part of the price/package.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-synonyms/10393/4 "2017-07-06T02:55:52Z")