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DICT is a dictionary network protocol created by the DICT Development Group. It is described by RFC 2229. Its goal is to surpass the Webster protocol and to allow clients to access more dictionaries during use. Dict servers and clients use TCP port 2628.

Free dictionaries available in the dict format:

• Free On-line dictionary of Computing
• V.E.R.A.
• FREELANG Dictionary
• Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
• WordNet
• Jargon File
• The Devil's Dictionary (©1911)
• Elements database
• U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
• CIA World Factbook
• Easton's 1897 Bible dictionary
• Moby Thesaurus
• the freedict bilingual dictionaries

Combined, they make up the Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia.

DICT servers:

• dictd (the standard server made by the dict Development Group)

DICT clients:

• Kdict, comes with KDE
• gnome-dictionary, comes with GNOME
• dictem, for the Emacs text editor
• dict.org's own dict client
• OmniDictionary, for Mac OS X
• Dictionary, an application included with Mac OS X. Online dictionaries can be accessed by setting it as the helper for 'dict://' URI schemes.
• MaemoDict, for the Nokia 770
• Fantasdic
• ZopeDictDB for Zope from Pentila

StarDict is a desktop dictionary. It doesn't support the dict protocol directly. Instead, it provides a converter, which would imply that you need to store data twice if you want to use it both with the dict protocol and with StarDict.

There are also programs that read the dict file format directly. For example, S60Dict is a dictionary program for Symbian Series 60 that uses DICT dictionaries.

See also

• Category:DICT clients

External links

• dict.org
• Aioe.org hosts a large collection of free ready to use dict dictionaries and a free dict server
• DICT protocol server list
• RFC 2229 - Definition of the dict protocol