dictionarpy 1.5.6

Offline dictionary in the terminal

DictionarPy

An extensible offline dictionary application

The dictionary comes prepopulated with a little over 53,000 words and 118,000 definitions available for offline reference. It is also designed to be added to and grow with your lexicon.

Some things you can do:

1. Add and remove words, parts of speech, definitions, IPA transcriptions
2. Show random words
3. Get similar words
4. Reference the built-in IPA key
5. Search within definitions for a particular string

Statistics regarding this version's included dictionary

$ dpy -ns
Words:               53300
Definitions:         118827
IPA Transcriptions:  29849
Disk size:           10.52MB
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Parts of speech:
    nom féminin │ intransitive verb │ abbreviation
    conjuction │ preposition │ auxiliary verb │ idiom
    nom masculin │ transitive verb │ verb │ article
    transitive/intransitive verb │ phrase │ pronoun
    adverb │ definite article │ abréviation │ plural noun
    │ noun │ adjective │ interjection │ determiner
    conjunction │ nom │ adjectif │ verbe

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Examples

• Add a word/definition to the database

  $ dpy -a -w "my new word" -p "my part of speech" -d "my definition!"
  

• Add or update the phonetic/phonemic transcription of a word

  $ dictionarpy -a -w "my new word" -i "/mj nu wɝd/"
  

• Show the definitions for a word (use -n to avoid ansi escape sequences)

  $ dictionarpy -n "my new word"                                                
  ┌──────────────────────┐
  │     my new word      │
  │     /mj nu wɝd/      │
  ├──────────────────────┤
  │ 1. my part of speech │
  │    my definition!    │
  └──────────────────────┘
  

• Remove a definition from the database

  $ dictionarpy -r 1 "my new word"
  

• Remove an entry from the database

  $ dictionarpy -R "remove_this_word"
  

• Learn a random word!

  $ dpy "$(dpy -z)"
  

For help and additional functionality: dpy -h