GoldenDict is a

free and open-source Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a term used to refer to groups of software consisting of both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source ...

dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologie ...

program that gives translations of words and phrases for different languages. It allows the use of several popular dictionary file formats simultaneously and without conversion. The project aims to create a feature-rich dictionary search program.

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* The desktop program is free and open-source software (

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). * Supports multiple electronic dictionary file formats, namely: **

WordNet WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words in more than 200 languages. WordNet links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into '' synsets'' with short defin ...

– a free lexical database for the English language **

XDXF XDXF (XML Dictionary eXchange Format) is a project to unite all existing open dictionaries and provide both users and developers with a universal XML-based format, convertible from and to other popular formats like Mova, PtkDic, and StarDict. A ...

dictionary (XML Dictionary eXchange Format) **

Babylon ''Bābili(m)'' * sux, 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 * arc, 𐡁𐡁𐡋 ''Bāḇel'' * syc, ܒܒܠ ''Bāḇel'' * grc-gre, Βαβυλών ''Babylṓn'' * he, בָּבֶל ''Bāvel'' * peo, 𐎲𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎽𐎢 ''Bābiru'' * elx, 𒀸𒁀𒉿𒇷 ''Babi ...

(.bgl) files with images and resources **

StarDict StarDict, developed by Hu Zheng (胡正), is a free GUI released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license for accessing StarDict dictionary files (a ''dictionary shell''). It is the successor of StarDic, developed by Ma Su'an (馬蘇安), continuing ...

(.ifo / .dict / .idx / .syn) dictionaries ** Dictd (.index / .dict / .dz) dictionary files ** ABBYY Lingvo (.dsl) source files, together with abbreviation files. ** ABBYY Lingvo (.lsa / .dat) audio archives. ** Sdictionary (.dct) dictionaries. This format is also known as sdict. ** Aard (.aar) dictionaries ** Sound packs (.zips) in zip archives ** MDict (.mdx / .mdd) dictionaries ** EPWING (.Catalogs) dictionaries ** .ZIM file format * Uses

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layout engine for a more accurate article representation (including formatting, colors, images and links) * Supports lookups on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, or any other

MediaWiki MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It is used on Wikipedia and almost all other Wikimedia websites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata; these sites define a large part of the requirement set for Media ...

-based sites * Can use arbitrary websites as dictionaries via templated URL patterns * Can translate long text of many languages (e.g. through

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) * Hunspell-based morphology system, used for word stemming and

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s * Can index arbitrary directories with audio files for pronunciation lookups * Can feed look up word to external program and print program output along other dictionary results * Full

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case, diacritics, punctuation and whitespace folding. This means the ability to type in words without any accents, correct case, punctuation or spaces (e.g. typing "Grussen" would yield "grüßen" in German dictionaries) * Supports Russian, Greek, German, Belarusian and Japanese

transliteration Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus ''trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → , Cyrillic → , Greek → the digraph , Armenian → or L ...

* Native TTS support in Windows and macOS * Scan popup functionality. A small popup window displays the translation of a word chosen from another application * Support for global hotkeys (to activate the program window or translate a word from the clipboard) * Tabbed browsing in a

Qt 4 The latest version of Qt is 6.5 released on 3 April 2023. Also still supported, for commercial users, are 5.15 LTS, released on 26 May 2020, and 6.2 LTS, released on 30 September 2021 – long-term support (LTS) versions are generally supported f ...

interface * Supports

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web plugins (e.g.

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) * Supports dictionary custom icons * Cross-platform: Linux/X11, macOS, Maemo, Android and Windows + portable to others (Android application is closed-source and is available in

Google Play Google Play, also known as the Google Play Store and formerly the Android Market, is a digital distribution service operated and developed by Google. It serves as the official app store for certified devices running on the Android operating sy ...

) * Allows playback of pronunciation sound clips in different languages using

Forvo Forvo.com is a website that allows access to, and playback of, pronunciation sound clips in many different languages in an attempt to facilitate the learning of languages. Forvo.com was first envisioned in 2007 by co-founder Israel Rondón, and ...

online service. *Allows listening pronunciations from

Lingua Libre Lingua Libre is an online collaborative project and tool by the Wikimedia France association, which aims to build a collaborative, multilingual, audiovisual corpus under free license. Description Lingua Libre enables to record words, phrases o ...

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GoldenDict web site
Free dictionary software Freeware Dictionary software Translation dictionaries DICT clients Machine translation Dictionary software that uses Qt Language software for Linux Language software for macOS Language software for Windows Free and open-source software

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