how can i download a free dictionary from internet to use offline?
2006-09-29 00:30:19 · 7 answers · asked by leila 1 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
StarDict -- Cross-platform
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stardict/
StarDict is a free, open-source, cross-platform and international dictionary written. It has powerful features such as "Glob-style pattern matching", "Scan seletion word", "Fuzzy search", etc.
Available languages include English, German, French, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Taiwanese. WyabdcRealPeopleTTS (Text-to-Speech) is also available. Since it's open-source, you can also contribute to the project.
LingoPad -- Only for Windows
http://www.ego4u.com/en/lingopad
LingoPad has German and English dictionaries by default. You can download more dictionaries (e.g. Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Kurdish, Norwegian) by clicking Online update in the Dictionaries menu. It also supports freely definable user dictionaries, search for beginning, ending and middle part of a word, collocations. It also featuers direct links to look up words on Wikipedia and various search engines.
WordWeb (Free version) -- Only for Windows
http://wordweb.info/free/
WordWeb is also good, but there are many missing features (available only in Pro version, which is not free)
2006-09-29 01:33:13 · answer #1 · answered by Utkarsh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://wordweb.info/free/
WORDWEB FREE VERSION
WordWeb is a free cut-down version of the WordWeb Pro software. It includes a comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, and can be used to look up words from within most programs. Features of the free version include:
Definitions and synonyms
Proper nouns
Related words
Pronunciations
140 000 root words
115 000 synonym sets
Look up words in almost any program
Millions of people from all over the world use this top-rated software.
2006-09-29 07:37:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what languages you're looking for. I can suggest some Hungarian based dictionary and I found a dictionary on download.com called Pardon dictionary with some downloadable dictionaries.
2006-09-29 08:11:25 · answer #3 · answered by fenya25 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
word net dictionary is the one.
2006-09-29 07:41:06 · answer #4 · answered by King pandia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"WordWeb" is free. You can download from http://wordweb.info/free/
2006-09-29 07:36:13 · answer #5 · answered by NinethSense 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can get it from net but it has limited word so
if you find it please give me one copy
2006-09-29 07:32:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.dictionary.com
2006-09-29 07:37:43 · answer #7 · answered by ☮ Erica ☮ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋