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Supported Dictionary Formats

justinstories edited this page Feb 16, 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 formats)
    
  2. Babylon dictionaries (bgl format)
    
  3. Dictd dictionaries (index, dict and dz)
    
  4. ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries (dsl)
    
  5. Lingoes dictionaries (ld2)  - Only in the mobile version
    

Audio pronunciation dictionary formats

  1. ABBYY Lingvo audio files (.lsa and .dat)
    
  2. Arbitrary sets of sound files
    

Online Dictionaries

  1. 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