Questions tagged [dictionary]
For questions related to using sources that contain definitions, information or translations of words
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Monolingual learner-friendly dictionary for Spanish
The aim of this thread is to compile a resource of suggestions for monolingual learner-friendly dictionaries for present-day Spanish. Please add your suggestions below.
Ideally:
the definitions are ...
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Monolingual dictionary for learners of French
The aim of this thread is to compile a resource of suggestions for monolingual learner's dictionaries for present-day French. Please add your suggestions below.
Ideally:
the definitions are written ...
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Semi automated dictionary application
I asked this question on stackoverflow, and got put on hold; rightfully so. I hope this is a better place.
Are there applications, desktop applications, plugins, libraries, etc., dedicated to ...
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Which online English dictionary is good for etymology, British spelling and pronounciation, as well as idioms?
There are several English-English dictionaries online; in addition to Wiktionary and Tatoeba (kind of) and no doubt other folk-edited dictionaries, there seem to be some curated ones: Cambridge, ...
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Digital dictionaries with sound for French learners
I had been using Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English on a computer app. It was a great experience working with a dictionary that gives you pronunciations, examples with sound, thesaurus, and ...
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Seeking Egyptian Arabic dictionary with sort of most common single words top down style
I am looking for a website which has an app for the most common single Egyptian Arabic words, with the ability to sort words from most common to least common, preferably with romanization included in ...
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What are the implications of reading texts beyond my level?
Most texts, articles, books, novels, etc. that interest me in L2 are well above my level, requiring an intimate relationship with a dictionary in order to read. I can painstakingly plod through, but I ...
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Any downloadable dictionaries of commonly used words? [duplicate]
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but here it goes.
I need a dictionary file (XML, JSON, or any other computer readable format) that contains the most commonly used words ...
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Spanish-English downloadable dictionary
I'm looking for a Spanish - English downloadable dictionary, similar to CC-CEDICT for Chinese.
CC-CEDICT is a continuation of the CEDICT project. The objective of
the CEDICT project was to ...
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When I look for a simple word in an Arabic dictionary, it gives me 20 different verbs
My native language is English, and I'm trying to learn Modern Standard Arabic. I speak Spanish and Greek, so I'm not new to this. I am trying to look up words like I normally do in European languages, ...
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Are there any good dictionaries for Ancient Greek? [closed]
I do realize this question might be difficult to answer as most words in Ancient Greek are hard to translate, and some have whole studies around them. But as there isn't a stack exchange for Ancient ...
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Can anyone recommend a free and online Greek-to-English dictionary?
The dictionary may optionally render the Greek word with the Roman alphabet but must include one or more definitions in English that explain the meaning. In particular, I am trying to find out why "...
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Is there a dictionary for Transliterated Arabic?
Is there a dictionary for the meanings of transliterated Quarnic Arabic, e.g.
"lahu maa fis samaawate wa maa fil arze"?
If I was to put in a single word e.g. "lahu", it should give me the meaning.
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Has a corpus-based unprofessional bilingual dictionary ever been written - how was it received?
I am thinking of compiling a bilingual dictionary (German-English for that matter, but the question may be generalized).
I was thinking of using a specific and finite corpus of texts, which should be ...
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Are there any professionally edited digital dictionaries for Mac?
I find it a bit cumbersome to go to websites like linguee or dict.cc to look up words as it slows me down and requires an internet connection. Also I find that online dictionaries, that are community ...
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What resources are there for learning Toki Pona?
I recently started using Memrise to learn Toki Pona, because I find that language to be very interesting. Memrise is indeed useful regarding vocabulary, but I think it is not enough.
Are there other ...
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Open-source English-French Dictionary
I'm looking for an English to French dictionary in a plain text file (.txt for example).
I already found some dictionaries but a lot of definitions are wrong or incomplete:
know; savons, sache, ...
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Seeking an Arabic dictionary with colloquialisms
There are words in colloquial Arabic that Google Translate won't understand and which are not even an Arabic dictionary!
This problem is noticeably worse than for, say, Spanish or English, where many ...
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Why retain vocabulary when there are dictionaries?
Usually, when we come across an unknown word, we can guess its meaning based on the text around it (assuming that all the words around are known). However, there are cases that the meaning of the word ...
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What advantages do standard dictionaries have over learners' dictionaries in defining a word?
There are two main kinds of dictionary: standard and learner's. The standard dictionary is made mainly for native speakers, where readers are expected to be fluent in the language. The learner's, as ...
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What are the advantages of a paper dictionary over an online dictionary?
It has been a while now since I opened a paper dictionary to translate words from a language to another. I still have two paper dictionaries at home: one for English-French translations and one for ...
