Emacs StarDict (CLI Version) Viewer

It's nice to know more about the words you're using. Online dictionaries have proliferated and become quite useful, and there are some nice packages available like define-word which make use of such online resources.

However, the quicker I can know more about the words I'm using, the better! Offline dictionaries are obviously the way to go then, and the Console implementation of StarDict already has a package or two for Emacs.

I like things fancy though, and all of the existing StarDict interfaces seem a bit … restrained — so I grabbed one of the existing ones and hacked away on it for a bit.

This has rich support for the following dictionaries:

• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
• GCIDE (with conversion from dict to StarDict)
• Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
• Elements Database
• Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary

If you happen to use Doom, you may find this section of my config interesting.