📘 Offline English dictionary for your terminal.
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📘 Define
Offline English dictionary for your terminal.
Features
- 🌱 Offline-first: ships with an embedded English dictionary.
- ✨ Fast lookups: optimized SQLite with tuned pragmas.
- 🧠 Smart resolution: handles inflections and suggests close matches.
- 🗣️ Pronunciations: included when available.
- 📃 Rich lexical data: definitions, synonyms, antonyms, examples, and more.
- 🖌️ Readable output: clean, colorized terminal formatting.
- 🎟️ JSON mode: script-friendly output with
--json.
Usage
Simply pass a word as an argument to look it up:
define <word>
Options:
--json: Output results in structured JSON format.--version: Display the current app version.
Installation
For Linux 64-bit:
curl -sL https://codeberg.org/commitsovercoffee/define/releases/download/v1.0.0/define-linux-amd64 \
-o define && chmod +x define && sudo mv define /usr/local/bin/
For macOS Intel (64-bit):
curl -sL https://codeberg.org/commitsovercoffee/define/releases/download/v1.0.0/define-darwin-amd64 \
-o define && chmod +x define && sudo mv define /usr/local/bin/
For macOS Apple Silicon (arm64):
curl -sL https://codeberg.org/commitsovercoffee/define/releases/download/v1.0.0/define-darwin-arm64 \
-o define && chmod +x define && sudo mv define /usr/local/bin/
Uninstallation
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/define # remove app
rm -rf ~/.config/define/ # remove data
Credits
- Linguistic Data: Open English WordNet.
- Data Source: Open English WordNet SQLite Distribution.
- Database Engine: modernc.org/sqlite (CGO-free).
- Language: Built with Go.
License
This project is licensed under the GNU AGPLv3.