Word of the Day

Show Word of the Day from 15 online sources in Emacs!

Available Sources

• Merriam Webster
• Wiktionary
• Macmillan Dictionary
• Wordsmith
• Free Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Urban Dictionary
• WordThink
• Oxford Dictionaries
• Cambridge Dictionary
• Collins Dictionary
• Learners Dictionary
• Wordnik
• Dictionary.com
• Bing dict (English word, Chinese definitions. See also bing-dict.el)

Commands

M-x wotd-select

Show a word-of-the-day by selecting a source from wotd-enabled-sources.

This works asynchronously.

M-x wotd-all

Show all the “word-of-the-day”s from wotd-enabled-sources in a summary buffer, which enables orgstruct-mode for easier navigation.

This works synchronously. (may be changed later)

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Config

See wotd-supported-sources for the complete list of all the supported online sources. You can set wotd-enabled-sources to controls which sources are enabled. By default, all the sources except bing dict are enabled.

Contribution

Welcome to submit PRs to add more online sources!