GoldenDict is a feature-rich dictionary lookup application supporting both offline dictionaries and online sources.
It supports formats including StarDict, Babylon BGL, ABBYY Lingvo DSL, DICT, AARD, MDict and SDict. Dictionary articles retain their formatting, images, links and other content where supported.
GoldenDict also offers morphology and spelling assistance, Unicode handling, web-based dictionaries and a scan popup for quickly looking up text selected in other applications.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports StarDict, Babylon BGL, ABBYY Lingvo DSL, DICT, AARD, MDict and SDict dictionaries.
- Retains article formatting, images, links and other content.
- Queries Wikipedia, Wiktionary and other MediaWiki-based sites.
- Use arbitrary websites as dictionaries through configurable URL patterns.
- Hunspell-based morphology, stemming and spelling suggestions.
- Full Unicode case, diacritic, punctuation and whitespace folding.
- Scan popup for looking up selected text.
- Global keyboard shortcuts.
- Tabbed browsing.
- Indexes directories containing pronunciation audio.
- Reorder and disable individual dictionaries.
Website: github.com/goldendict/goldendict
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Developer: Konstantin Isakov and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
GoldenDict is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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