Wordbook

Lookup definitions for any English term Source

Description

Wordbook is an offline English-English dictionary application built for GNOME using the Open English WordNet database for definitions and the reliable eSpeak for pronunciations (both audio and phoneme).

Features

Fully offline after initial data download
Random Word
Live Search
Double click to search
Custom Definitions feature using Pango Markup or an HTML subset for formatting
Support for GNOME Dark Mode and launching app in dark mode.

Source

Notice

GTK3/libadwaita until 0.2.0, GTK 4 since, will also use libadwaita with next release.

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Links to (pages with) screenshots:

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

✔ This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK4

Programming languages: Python

Build system: meson

AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mufeedali/Wordbook/main/data/dev.mufeed.Wordbook.metainfo.xml.in