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#1 2011-08-20 18:11:42

Camus
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Offline dictionary of definitions

Is there any offline dictionary of definitions in official repos or AUR? How would setup one?

I'd like to be able to get word definitions via CLI without Internet connection. I hope there's also some tool that I can then point to the offline dictionary.

Thanks in advance!

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#2 2011-08-20 18:20:31

karol
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Re: Offline dictionary of definitions

Definitions of what? Acronyms, medical? In what language?

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30232
http://linuxers.org/article/artha-brill … nary-linux

Last edited by karol (2011-08-20 18:25:15)

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#3 2011-08-20 18:25:55

fsckd
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Re: Offline dictionary of definitions

Moving to Newbie Corner.


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#4 2011-08-20 18:43:13

skottish
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Re: Offline dictionary of definitions

I use sdcv with local copies of Moby Thesaurus, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), WordNet, and Merrian-Webster. Some of these can be tricky to find now though because of apparent copyright issues.

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#5 2011-08-20 19:09:46

Camus
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Re: Offline dictionary of definitions

Sdcv is what I need, but like you said, it's seems hard to get a dictionary. I've tried a few from AUR, but links don't work anymore.

@karol:
I just need an English dictionary of word definitions. I don't need anything specific, but I'd like a huge word database.
Just to make it clear, I want an offline CLI alternative of googling 'define:<word>'.

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#6 2011-08-20 23:47:19

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#7 2011-08-21 00:11:20

fsckd
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Re: Offline dictionary of definitions

I use Wordnet. It's in the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8081
It has definitions, synonyms, and other *nym things which would interest you if you're a linguist.
Sample interaction,

$ wn cow -over

Overview of noun cow

The noun cow has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts
)
                                            
1. (20) cow, moo-cow -- (female of domestic cattle: 
"`moo-cow' is a child's term")
2. (1) cow -- (mature female of mammals of which the
 male is called `bull')
3. cow -- (a large unpleasant woman)

Overview of verb cow

The verb cow has 1 sense (no senses from tagged text
s)
                                           
1. overawe, cow -- (subdue, restrain, or overcome by
 affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with 
threats))

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#8 2011-08-21 02:55:23

lolilolicon
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Re: Offline dictionary of definitions

You can also set up a local dictd server and use `dict` as client. The databases can be found at ftp://ftp.dict.org (See http://www.dict.org/w/databases/start).
This will take more effort, but suitable as a shared dictionary service for LAN.

Edit: There're many dictd dictionaries in AUR if you search "dictd".

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#9 2011-08-21 09:51:11

Camus
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Re: Offline dictionary of definitions

Thanks a lot! Wordnet and dictd do what I want, but I'm going to use dictd since I can add dictionaries very easily. The downside is that I have to have the daemon running, but that's OK.

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