Look up words on dictionaries
gnome-dictionary 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.
--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.
All the configuration is handled using GConf.
GNOME Dictionary was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou (<[email protected]>), Mike Hughes (<[email protected]>) and Bradford Hovinen (<[email protected]>).
Emmanuele Bassi (<[email protected]>) rewrote it from scratch.
This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <[email protected]>.