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Supported Dictionary Formats

VVSiz edited this page Apr 24, 2013 · 12 revisions

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 (**.ifo**, **.dict**, **.idx**, and **.syn** files)
    
  2. Babylon dictionaries (**.bgl** files)
    
  3. Dictd dictionaries (**.index**, **.dict** and **.dict.dz** files)
    
  4. ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries (**.dsl**, **.dsl.dz**, **.lsd**) - lsd support only in mobile version
    
  5. Lingoes dictionaries (**.ld2**)  - Only in the mobile version
    
  6. XDXF dictionaries (**.xdxf**, **.xdxf.dz**) - Desktop version build 1.0.1-210-gfb179ac and later
    
  7. AARD dictionaries (**.aar**) - Desktop version build 1.0.1-223-g81ee55a and later
    
  8. SDict dictionaries (**.dct**) - Desktop version build 1.0.1-223-g81ee55a and later
    
  9. MDict dictionaries (**.mdd** and **.mdd** files) - Desktop version build 1.0.1-675-g487ba6b 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.