[[Wiktionary:Welcome, newcomers|Welcome]] to the English-language '''Wiktionary''', a collaborative project to produce a free, multilingual [[dictionary]] with definitions, etymologies, [[Wiktionary:Pronunciation|pronunciations]], sample quotations, [[:Category:Wikisaurus|synonyms]], antonyms and [[Wiktionary:Translations|translations]]. Wiktionary is the lexical companion to the open-content encyclopedia [[w:Main Page|Wikipedia]]. In this English edition, started on [[w:December 12|December 12]], [[w:2002|2002]], we currently have '''[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]]''' entries in '''401''' languages. Learn how to [[Help:Starting a new page|start a page]], how to [[Help:How to edit a page|edit entries]], experiment in the [[Wiktionary:Sandbox|sandbox]] and visit our [[Wiktionary:Community Portal|Community Portal]] to see how '''you''' can participate in the development of Wiktionary. The content of Wiktionary is covered by the [[GNU Free Documentation License]]; see [[Wiktionary:Copyrights|Wiktionary copyrights]] for details.
Today is celebrated by some people as World Cocktail Day. On this day in 1806, the AmericanjournalistHarry Croswell, the editor of the Balance and Columbian Repository, defined a cocktail in his newspaper as “a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters”.
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