gnome-dictionary

gnome-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries

I gnome-dictionary

I gnome-dictionary  [options]

or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications menu.

GNOME Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source. For full documentation see the GNOME Dictionary online help.

I --look-up word

I -s source or --source source

R -l or --list-sources

R -n or --no-window

--help

All the configuration is handled using GConf.

GNOME Dictionary was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou (<spapadim+@cs.cmu.edu>), Mike Hughes (<mfh@psilord.com>) and Bradford Hovinen (<hovinen@udel.edu>). Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi@gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch. This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>.

dict(1), dictd(8), R http://www.dict.org/ , RFC 2229