Determining whether a given word is semantically similar to a dictionary definition

I have a Greek-English dictionary that has entries like this: ἀνήρ - man, husband I would like to figure out some method for a computer to determine whether another English word aligns well with such a definition. Examples of inputs and outputs, for the definition given above, would be: man->true, fellow->true, person->true, temple->false, throw->false. (The output could instead be some kind of quantitative score rather than a boolean.) Methods I've thought of, but am not really satisfied with: Compare every word in the definition with the given word, using a word embedding. (Or sum the vector