Command Line Dictionary

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Hey, crowd knowledge!

I’m sick of switching to the browser to look up words/translations in a dictionary[1] while I mainly work on the command line.

Edit: I’m searching for translations. I want to look up a word, get a list of translations/synonyms, re-translate one of the results to see if it fits my need, or take another one.

There must be some solution as this is practically the most straight forward thing ever.

I came across sdcv in the Fedora Magazine but meanwhile, all the dictionary files (like stardict-dic-en) seem to be removed from the repository.

So – naturally – two questions arise:

  1. What’s up with sdcv – as it’s probably not the intended solution to scramble around the internet on a manual search for remaining dictionaries.
  2. Is there a successor that superseded it?

Thanks for any ideas!

  1. It’s slow and I’m bombarded with cookie or “support us“ messages. ↩︎

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The package translate-shell should provide the requested features

$ trans -t de "command line dictionary"
command line dictionary

Befehlszeilenwörterbuch

Translations of command line dictionary
[ English -> Deutsch ]

command line dictionary
    Befehlszeilenwörterbuch, Kommandozeilen-Wörterbuch
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The classic dictionary that I use on the CLI is dict:

No translations there, though, as far as I can tell. translate-shell is probably the best one for that.