# Dictionaries

Dictionaries

## How to download and install dictionaries

Dictionaries Downloading and installing

Dictionaries in OmegaT are based on the StarDict or on the Lingvo DSL format. To install the necessary files for the StarDict format, proceed as follows:

- Search for the required language combination - for instance on the dictionary links given by the OmegaT Wiki.

  Dictionaries StarDict

- Download the file - it should be a `tarball` archive (extension tar.bz or tar.bz2).

- Use untar utility (or its equivalent, for instance`winrar` in Windows) to extract its contents into the project folder "Dictionary". There should be three files, with extensions dz, idx and ifo.

Note that in addition to "source-target" dictionaries you can, using the Dictionary feature, obtain access to information such as:

- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  Dictionaries Webster

- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

  Dictionaries Longman

- The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

  Dictionaries Britannica

- etc...

Some of the dictionaries have no strings attached - i.e. are "Free to use", and others, like the selection above, are under the GPL license. The following example shows Merriam Webster 10th dictionary "in action":

Merriam Webster dictionary - use

Dictionaries Merriam Webster Dictionaries

## Problems with dictionaries

Dictionaries Problems with

- Check that your dict files are in the correct folder (or in a subfolder below it). Check in Ctrl E Project Properties .

  Shortcuts Project properties - Ctrl+E

- Does the folder contain three files of the same name, with extensions? If only one file is present, check its extension. If it is tar.bz, you have forgotten to unpack (untar) it.