WordDefiner English Dictionary

WordDefiner English Dictionary is a commercial English dictionary and thesaurus application for Linux. It is intended for people who want to study word meanings, pronunciation, and relationships between words. Entries can include phonetic or phonemic transcription, pronunciation audio, and definitions organized by part of speech.

The application also provides synonyms and antonyms for looked-up words. It can show statistically associated words, similarly spelled words, similar-sounding words, and rhyming words, including when a direct definition is not available. Users can examine words that commonly come before or after a lookup, along with nouns typically modified by it and adjectives that often modify it. Additional semantic relationships include hypernyms, hyponyms, holonyms, and meronyms.

WordDefiner belongs to the Education category on Linux and supports language study through reference and word-association tools. Its definitions are powered by FreeDictionaryAPI.com, while the associated, spelling-related, sound-related, and rhyming information is powered by the Datamuse API.