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gnome-dictionary: Look up words on dictionaries

NAME

gnome-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries

SYNOPSIS

gnome-dictionary


gnome-dictionary [options]

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

DESCRIPTION

GNOME Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source.

For full documentation see the GNOME Dictionary online help.

OPTIONS

--look-up word

Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined dictionary source.

--match word

Matches one or more words using the pre-defined dictionary source.

-s source or --source source

Uses the specified source for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings.

-D database or --database database

Use the specified database for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings.

-S strategy or --strategy strategy

Use the specified strategy for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings.

--help

Display help information.

CONFIGURATION

All the configuration is handled using GConf.

AUTHOR

GNOME Dictionary was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou (<spapadim+ [at] cs.cmu.edu>), Mike Hughes (<mfh [at] psilord.com>) and Bradford Hovinen (<hovinen [at] udel.edu>).

Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi [at] gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch.

This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <voss [at] mathematik.uni-kl.de>.