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Dictionary

Check word definitions and spellings in an online dictionary Source

Description

Dictionary is a simple dictionary application that looks up definitions of words online. Though it looks up English definitions by default, you can easily switch to Spanish or add other online dictionaries using the DICT protocol to suit your needs.

Source

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Archived in November 2022.

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Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

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

Project status: archived

This project has been archived by its maintainers. It might still work for you, but you won't get any help if something is wrong.

Project status: inactive

This project has not seen any commit activity in two years. It may work fine for you, there may be dragons, and most importantly, don't expect updates or a response to your bug reports!

The project repository was created on 2018-05-23.

The last known commit happened on 2022-11-02.

Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2024-12-01

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Licensing and technical details

License: GFDL-1.3 GPL-2.0-or-later LGPL-2.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK3

Programming languages: C

Build system: meson

AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-dictionary/-/raw/master/data/appdata/org.gnome.Dictionary.appdata.xml.in.in