gnome-dictionary

gnome-dictionary [options]

or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications menu.

For full documentation see the GNOME Dictionary online help.

--look-up word

Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined dictionary source.

-s source or --source source

Uses the specified source for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings.

-l or --list-sources

Lists all the sources available.

-n or --no-window

Using this switch with the --look-up will print the defintions found on the console without launching the GUI.

--help

Display help information.

Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi@gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch.

This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>.