Offline dictionary of definitions

Camus · 2011-08-20 18:11:42

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!

karol · 2011-08-20 18:20:31

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)

fsckd · 2011-08-20 18:25:55

Moving to Newbie Corner.

skottish · 2011-08-20 18:43:13

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.

Camus · 2011-08-20 19:09:46

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>'.

jetm · 2011-08-20 23:47:19

my-dict.sh - A small CLI English dictionary.

fsckd · 2011-08-21 00:11:20

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))

lolilolicon · 2011-08-21 02:55:23

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".

Last edited by lolilolicon (2011-08-21 03:35:59)

Camus · 2011-08-21 09:51:11

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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