The closest thing linguists have come up with, to my knowledge, are wordnets. They build definitions by the words, directly and indirectly, associated with the

The closest thing linguists have come up with, to my knowledge, are wordnets. They build definitions by the words, directly and indirectly, associated with them. You could then use those clusters to create individual definitions in some way. Have you looked at them? I think the biggest problem is that definitions are semantic which computers are terrible at. We’re at the infancy of being able to with transformers and large language models nowadays. So is start looking around for the proto-tools that will lead to what you're thinking about.