Running dict $term will give you multiple meanings and multiple contextual meanings for the term from a variety of sources. For this the only requirement is a good/proper ~/.dictrc
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How do I tell dict to give output from a subset of dictionaries?
When installing dict, by default I got this -
[$] dict appease
1 definition found
From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.5.2 [fd-eng-hin]:
appease
1. संतुष्ट~करना
"Shop keepers try their best to appease their customer."
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Wiktionary for dictd - where to obtain?
I have dictd installed and some dictionaries. I'd like to add Wiktionary but websearch does not find it, only bilinguals based on it. Any idea how/where to obtain one? Maybe make into dict format from other?
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meaning of suffix in hunspell files i.e. `/EPSozm`
When I grep for phan in my hunspell-dic file /usr/share/hunspell/de_DE_frami.dic, I get list of words including
cellophan/Sozm
cellophan/hke
cellophan/ozm
glaukophan/EPSozm
Where do I find documentation, what the suffixes mean? I looked for a…
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