Supported Dictionary Formats

Goldendict supports many dictionary formats. The main formats are listed below. The file extensions of the supported dictionary formats are given in the brackets

Offline Dictionary formats

1. StarDict dictionaries (<b>.ifo</b>, **.dict**, **.idx**, and **.syn** files)
   

2. Babylon dictionaries (<b>.bgl</b> files)
   

3. Dictd dictionaries (<b>.index</b>, **.dict** and **.dict.dz** files)
   

4. ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries (<b>.dsl</b>, **.dsl.dz**, **.lsd**) - lsd support only in mobile version
   

5. Lingoes dictionaries (<b>.ld2</b>)  - Only in the mobile version
   

6. XDXF dictionaries (<b>.xdxf</b>, **.xdxf.dz**) - Desktop version build 1.0.1-210-gfb179ac and later
   

7. AARD dictionaries (<b>.aar</b>) - Desktop version build 1.0.1-223-g81ee55a and later
   

8. SDict dictionaries (<b>.dct</b>) - Desktop version build 1.0.1-223-g81ee55a and later
   

9. MDict dictionaries (<b>.mdd</b> and **.mdx** files) - Desktop version build 1.0.1-675-g487ba6b and later
   

10. Zim dictionaries (.zim files) - Desktop version build 1.5.0-RC-177-geb6ddfe and later. (Under Linux this feature is turned off by default. To turn it on use "qmake "CONFIG+=zim_support"" (liblzma-dev package required. Or take xz 5.0.5 sources from http://tukaani.org/xz/ and compile it).)
11. EPWING dictionaries - Desktop version build 1.5.0-RC-394-g141703a and later

Audio pronunciation dictionary formats

1. ABBYY Lingvo audio files (.lsa and .dat)
   

2. Arbitrary sets of sound files
   

3. Compressed sound packs (zips) - Desktop version build 1.0.1-333-g8e4b384 and later
   

Online Dictionaries

GoldenDict supports so many online dictionaries that it almost impossible to list them all here.

A few of the examples are wikipedia, Oxford, Lingoes, Merriam Websters

If you are using an online dictionary most probably that will work with Goldendict.