1gnome-dictionary(1) General Commands Manual gnome-dictionary(1)
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6 gnome-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries
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10 gnome-dictionary [options]
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12 or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications
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16 GNOME Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dic‐
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23 --look-up word
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27 -s source or --source source
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44 GNOME Dictionary was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou (<spa‐
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48 Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi@gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch.
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50 This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <voss@mathe‐
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55 dict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC 2229
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