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DICT is a dictionary network protocol created by the DICT Development Group. It is described by RFC 2229. Its goal is to surpass the Webster protocol and to allow clients to access more dictionaries during use. Dict servers and clients use TCP port 2628.

Free dictionaries available in the DICT format

Dictionaries of English

• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
• Oxford Advanced Learners' dictionary
• Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• V.E.R.A. — Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms which are used in the field of computing
• Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
• WordNet
• Jargon File
• The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
• Elements database
• The U.S. Gazetteer (1990 Census)
• CIA World Factbook
• Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
• Moby Thesaurus

Combined, they make up the Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia.

Bilingual dictionaries

• FREELANG Dictionary
• Freedict translating dictionaries
• English-French dictionary
• Mueller's English-Russian dictionary
• Big English-Russian Dictionary
• Lingvo English-Russian and Russian-English dictionaries are not free, but when purchased, can easily be converted into DICT format

DICT servers

• dictd (the standard server made by the DICT Development Group)
• GNU Dico

DICT clients

• Kdict, comes with KDE
• KTranslator, KDE dictionary
• gnome-dictionary, comes with GNOME
• dictem, for the Emacs text editor
• dict.org's own client (part of the dictd package)
• Mozdev.org's 'dict', a Firefox/Mozilla extension
• OmniDictionary, for Mac OS X
• Dictionary, an application included with Mac OS X. Online dictionaries can be accessed by setting it as the helper for 'dict://' URI schemes.
• MaemoDict, for the Nokia 770
• Fantasdic
• ZopeDictDB for Zope from Pentila
• cURL

There are also programs that read the DICT file format directly. For example, S60Dict is a dictionary program for Symbian Series 60 that uses DICT dictionaries.

See also

• Category:DICT clients

External links

• RFC 2229 — Definition of the DICT server protocol
• dict.org DICT Development Group. A WWW interface to several freely available on-line dictionaries.
• A collection of free dictionaries in DICT format at the StarDict home page
• DICT protocol server list