Goldendict is a cross-platform (Linux/Unix/MS-Windows/Apple OS X) and dictionary lookup app written in QT. This application support of multiple dictionary file formats. The program can search Wikipedia, Wiktionary, or any other MediaWiki based sites to perform lookups. You can listen to pronunciations for any word or setup text to speech to read out pronunciations. The dictionary also provides word stemming and spelling suggestions. You can also use this program to find out translations of words and phrases for different languages. A commercial mobile version is also available for Android based devices.
You need to install the following two packages:
[a] goldendict - a feature-rich dictionary lookup program.
[b] goldendict-wordnet - electronic lexical database of English language for dict.
Installation
Type the following command under Ubuntu / Debian Linux:
$ sudo apt-get install goldendict goldendict-wordnet
Sample outputs:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: goldendict goldendict-wordnet 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 18.1 MB of archives. After this operation, 19.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://mirror.anl.gov/debian/ squeeze/main goldendict amd64 0.9.1~git20100719-2 [1,063 kB] Get:2 http://mirror.anl.gov/debian/ squeeze/main goldendict-wordnet all 1:3.0-24 [17.0 MB] Fetched 17.2 MB in 52s (330 kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package goldendict. (Reading database ... 327779 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking goldendict (from .../goldendict_0.9.1~git20100719-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package goldendict-wordnet. Unpacking goldendict-wordnet (from .../goldendict-wordnet_1%3a3.0-24_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for menu ... Setting up goldendict (0.9.1~git20100719-2) ... Setting up goldendict-wordnet (1:3.0-24) ... Processing triggers for menu ...
How do I use goldendict?
Type the following command:
$ goldendict
Or visit the menu option:
Applications > Education > GoldenDict
Sample outputs:
Fig.01: GoldenDict in action
Lookup a word called 'panoply':
Fig.02: GoldenDict lookup in action
You can also select any word and the app will match current selection as follows (know as popup scan) to display more information about selected word:
Fig.03: Look up pacha word using popup scan
To setup dictionary and other options, Click on Edit > Preferences or Edit > Dictionary to setup options:
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- Preferences options
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- Dictionaries options
Download Goldendict
You can grab this tool from the following url:
- http://goldendict.org/ home page.
- Download additional third-party dictionaries for goldendict.
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