Dictionary

Look up definitions

Dictionary is the GNOME application to look up definitions.

Screenshots

• Dictionary main window

• Dictionary preferences dialog

• Dictionary user help

Getting in Touch

• Mailing list

• File a bug

• Developers: Emmanuel Bassi, Sindhu S

• Join #gnome-dictionary on irc.gimp.org

Development Resources

• Issue tracker

• Git: git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-dictionary.git

• Browse source code

• Tarballs

• Design page

Get Dictionary

Dictionary comes installed by default with GNOME. However, you can also install it in the following ways:

Install from binary

Install gitg from package repositories of your Gnu/Linux distribution.

• For Debian based systems using apt-get package management: apt-get install gnome-dictionary

• For RPM based systems using yum package management: yum install gnome-dictionary

OR

Install from source

1. Get dependencies:
   1. Gtk+ 3.0
   2. Glib
2. Install dependencies.

3. Get Dictionary source from git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-dictionary.git

4. Build gnome-dictionary

   1. ./autogen.sh

   2. make

   3. make install or ./src/gnome-dictionary

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