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| From | Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: GNU/Linux Dictionaries |
| Date | 2025-05-22 22:17 +0000 |
| Organization | Some absurd concept |
| Message-ID | <eli$2505221814@qaz.wtf> (permalink) |
| References | <pan$7922f$6eb4c3d$7f68edca$65b0b535@linux.rocks> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
(Followup-to ignored.)
In comp.os.linux.misc, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
> For a dictionary/thesaurus I am currently using dictd:
>
> https://github.com/cheusov/dictd
>
> The actual word data comes from several of the sources that
> are listed here:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT
>
> I am very satisfied with these resources but I am also curious
> if there are any other dictionaries available for GNU/Linux,
> and I am only interested in local, not online, resources.
All the dictd dictionaries I know of are listed as sources at
dict.org : https://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict4
On my own server I have only a few installed because I don't find value
in most of them:
$ cat /var/lib/dictd/db.list
[ comments removed ]
database gcide
{
data /usr/share/dictd/gcide.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dictd/gcide.index
}
database wn
{
data /usr/share/dictd/wn.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dictd/wn.index
}
database moby-thesaurus
{
data /usr/share/dictd/moby-thesaurus.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dictd/moby-thesaurus.index
}
database devil
{
data /usr/share/dictd/devil.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dictd/devil.index
}
$
> I am aware of StarDict but have never used it.
>
> https://stardict-4.sourceforge.net/index_en.php
>
> Can anyone offer recommendations?
It probably helps to tell people what you want out of a dictionary.
English word definitions? Something else?
I bet you can download wikitionary.org somehow, but I'm not sure what
tools exist to easily use the data.
Ah, here:
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
And here:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Wiktionary-supported_software
Elijah
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should probably think about using local dumps
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