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I would like to have a dictionary for offline use and which will be running in background. And when I select a word anywhere like in pdf, or in document, and it should pop-up or when I select the word and right click, there should be an option to get meaning.

Similar to google chrome has dictionary.com extension...

Is this available somewhere?

andrew.46
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user3903448
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I recommend to you "GoldenDict", just run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install goldendict

Then you have to download your dictionaries in FreeMdict Cloud, there are a lot!

Open GoldenDict, in preferences, you have to enable "Scan Popup" for when selecting a word anywhere you can access the app by pop-up.

Hope it can help you!

Stalinn Longobardi
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Stardict used to do this, but hasn't been developed in years.

Maybe one of these will work, they mostly seem to require internet access, though.: http://alternativeto.net/software/stardict/

Rabbit
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