How to install an offline dictionary in Ubuntu

By Ricky on February 3rd, 2010

A dictionay is one application that many people look for once they have installed Ubuntu. There are many dictionaries available but they are all online dictionary and as a result, you cannot use it if you are not connected to the internet. In this article, we will show you how you can get an offline dictionary in Ubuntu.

To get an offline dictionay in Ubuntu, simply follow the following steps:

Open the Terminal (or Konsole).
Install the dictionary server with the comand:

sudo apt-get install dictd

Install the dictionary definitions with the command

sudo apt-get install dict-gcide

Optionally, you can instally the yhesarus with the command

sudo apt-get install dict-moby-thesaurus

Now open the gnome-dictionary from Applications -> Office -> Dictionary.

Go to Edit -> Preference, in the Preference dialog, click on Add.

Change the Description to Local Server and the host to 127.0.0.1 and click on Add again.

Select Local Server from the list in the preference dialog and close.
Done!

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sumeet inani

(1)FOR ubuntu-8.04 users there is a slight change
I have done as told above & I find that
gnome-dictionary can be accessed via application > accessories > dictionary

(2)If you want more dictionary like oxford,wordnet etc.
You can try stardict which has more features.

Happy to help.
Thank You.

http://digitizor.com/ Ricky Laishram

Thanks for the info Sumeet.

mdub

This is awesome! So straightforward and easy.

http://digitizor.com/ Ricky Laishram

Glad you liked it

SI

Thanks for your article. Has been very useful

http://digitizor.com/ Ricky Laishram

Glad to know it was useful

Alan

This is great. Thank you very much. Until reading your post, I had no clue as to how I could extend the functionality of Ubuntu’s dictionary.

I was tired of spending $19 a year for the paid version of dictionary.com. Besides, as NPR reported…

“The one site that installed the most [trackers] was Dictionary.com. A visit to Dictionary.com resulted in 234 trackers being installed on our test computer, and only 11 of those were installed by Dictionary.com. Some tracking devices are completely innocuous. A cookie, or some type of tracker that remembers your password, [can be innocuous]. So if you ask a website to remember your login, that can be stored on a cookie. There are tracking devices that are useful to you as a Web browser. And those tend to be the ones that are installed by the website that you actually have a relationship with, not the ones that you’ve never heard of before that are sort of secretly lurking behind the scenes. So on Dictionary.com, the vast majority of the trackers (200 out of 234) were installed by companies that the person visiting the site probably had never heard of.”
Mohanraj

Good job! It also working in 10.04..
punyamurthy

thank you dude
i am looking for an off-line dictionary
its working
sampath

arigatho !!
fariez

Thank you, buddy. It makes my day, literally. Works for Ubuntu 10.10
http://www.fether.net Paula

Hi, great instructions. The install went flawlessly but the Dictionary does not appear in my Applications list anywhere. What do I need to do to get it to show up there? Thanks for any help.

http://www.fether.net Paula

I found out how to add it, but when I click it nothing happens. Maybe I’ll try uninstalling and reinstalling.

http://my-views.net Haresh

Thanks. This worked like charm on my Ubuntu 10.10
Premashis Manna

thank you. thank you very much.its working well.
bcmerlin

Thank you. I installed it and it works. But it’s not the dictionary I was searching for. I am searching for a translation dic, especially dutch-english.

How do I remove this offline dictionary anyway?

http://digitizor.com/ Ricky Laishram

sudo apt-get remove dictd dict-gcide dict-moby-thesaurus

Sundaratman

Thanks a lot. I was searching for offline Dict. I got it . It works well. Thanks. SundarAtman
dnp

I suggest ‘Artha’. It is an offline dictionary with lot more options. For example, if you select any word in any application and then press a hotkey (I use F2) , a small window pops up with the definition of the word and its synonyms, antonyms etc. It is available free (open source) for both Ubuntu and Windows.
k_pacho

hi, all is successful (Ubuntu 10.04) is there any else dictionary apart of English I can use offline (ex chinese one?)
parul

thank you…frnds
Wombat

Very very very good tut! How many times I have wanted this! Thanks you.
:)

Thank you.
Me_jailko

thanks for offline dictionary……………
Melo896

It is very important for me. Thank you very much.