Dictionary
Enter the word to lookup in the dictionary
Dictionary as your chat friend
There are other interesting ways to use the dictionaries provided here. Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam Dictionaries are available as chat bots. ie by adding the email address of these bots as your chat firend, you can ask the meaning of a word.
Following are the chat contacts for the dictionaries
- English - Malayalam Dictionary bot - eng.mal.dict@gmail.com
- English - Hindi Bilingual Dictionary bot - eng.hin.dict@jabber.org
- English - Kannada Dictionary bot - kn.dict.bot@jabber.org
More information about these bots here
Dictionary on your Android device
The Silpa Dictionary service is available for your Android device as an application. It will render the meaning of the word as an image and send it back to your phone. It currently support English-Malayalam and English-Hindi dictionaries only. It requires at least Android 1.5 to work
Installation : An APK is available here. Install it by browsing this site through your phone and clicking on the link or by downloading the APK into your phone’s storage and opening it from the phone.
Source code of the apk is available at https://github.com/rajivnair/Silpa-Dictionary-Android-client
Python Dictionary API
Dictionary APIs provide dictionary lookup service.- Method: modules.Dictionary.getdef
- arg1 : the word
- arg2 : the dictionary
print silpaService.modules.Dictionary.getdef("help","freedict-eng-hin")
Response will be the string containing the definition of the given word