oxford english dictionary for kindle download

ifo file makes mention of babylon so maybe that was the original source format either way the ifo file has the credits but it's written in Vietnamese. I think it's a conversion of a styled mdict version that I've seen kicking around (although the. I took that GCIDE version I made and combined it with a different version of Wordnet 3.1 that I found on a Chinese forum ( here's the file, but I didn't make it) that had some HTML attached that made the entries look nicer (I didn't know that Kobo dictionaries could be styled like that it looks really nice when paired with a sans font at a smaller font size using patches). Is this the same dictionary you posted called 'GNU CIDE v0.52' in the Index of Custom Dictionaries for Kobo eReader thread or something different again? Curious to give this a go.

You could also use penelope to combine a bunch of dictionaries to create your own custom one (for example, you could merge an English dictionary of your choice with a thesaurus to mimic what Wordnet offers, etc.). It covers most of what I read, the Wordnet-specific definitions are concise but descriptive enough (with the Websters 1912/GCIDE entries where available providing more context if I need it), and some of the Wordnet entries list synonyms, antonyms and hypernyms which is something some commercial dictionaries don't even do. Personally, I use a stylized version of Wordnet 3.1 combined with GCIDE definitions as my primary English lookup dictionary. So it depends on your definition of comprehensive. A recent copy of the English Wiktionary would have more entries and more modern entries, though (although some would debate the quality of those definitions).

In terms of free dictionaries, the GCIDE takes the copyright free Webster's 1912 dictionary as its base and uses crowdsourcing and adds various Wordnet entries to modernize it a bit. The most comprehensive commercial English dictionary is the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition is 20 volumes and updating it to the 3rd edition started in 1994 and has a deadline to finish in 2037) and that's what Kindle uses (by default, I think?).

Oxford english dictionary for kindle download