Omnidict

Overview

Omnidict is a dictionary, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: offline use, full-text search, themes and dark mode, keyboard shortcuts.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

At a glance

Omnidict is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

About

Omnidict is a fast offline dictionary for the Linux desktop. Choose from more than six hundred free dictionaries in hundreds of languages, download the ones you need once, and look words up instantly, without an internet connection. A dictionary for every language: English dictionary and thesaurus: English Wiktionary definitions, and English WordNet with synonyms, antonyms and related words Wiktionary for over three hundred languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Turkish and many more, each explained in English Historical languages too: Latin, Ancient Greek, Old English, Sanskrit and Old Norse Hundreds of bilingual FreeDict dictionaries, such as German-English, English-French and Spanish-Portuguese JMdict Japanese dictionary, CC-CEDICT Chinese dictionary and Kengdic Korean dictionary Filter the catalogue by language and provider, and see each dictionary's size and number of entries before you download Look words up quickly: Word lookup as you type, results grouped by dictionary with the best match first Accents are optional, and an inflected form finds its entry: ran finds run "Did you mean" spelling suggestions for misspelled words, in every script Wildcards: ? for one letter, * for any run of letters Full text search finds words used inside definitions Links between entries, with Back and Forward as in a browser Quick lookup: select a word in any app and press a shortcut to see its meaning in a small window Runs in the tray, so quick lookup works with the window closed, and can start at login Made for learning and everyday use: Favourites and recent lookups to build your vocabulary Reorder dictionaries, switch them off, update or remove them Light and dark themes that follow the desktop, and an adjustable text size Keyboard shortcuts for everything Private: no tracking, nothing is sent anywhere; the only network use is downloading dictionaries

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)