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StarDict

How did not I pay attention to that during all this time? An only-1-MB GTK-based offline dictionary!

StarDict::Oxford

StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary written in Gtk2 and data is availbale from the Website. I started to find out about it downloading both Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and the Russian Словарь Даля. Those data files are enough complete as they contain words from different fields: computing, literature, … and even slangs!

StarDict::Russian

Another cool feature, while the software is running, you can get the definition of any word from any external program (Firefox for example) just by selecting it.

StarDict::Selection

Installation is not difficult at all: you may download an RPM package or a tarball file that you uncompress and compile with any recent GCC version, you also have to copy data files to your share directory, for example /usr/local/share/stardict/dic/
Did I finally mention it’s Free? :-)

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