Vocab: An online dictionary integration to the command line

Slightly OT, just in case someone has a similar problem: I (ab)used Wikipedia as special dictionary (1) during my thesis by means of a script that looked up the english article to the search-word and extracted the title of the link to the article in my mother tongue out of it. Admittedly it was a crude solution but it worked well enough then.

(1) It was meant to be used for technical terms that wouldn't be in most normal dictionaries.

Is this using dedict? That is a tool released in 2015 that parses the Mac OS built-in dictionaries, including ODE.

"After I wrote my post about Apple's dictionary files, I got a mysterious email showing up in my inbox. The email was from someone who's spent some time writing code to do the same thing, but doesn't want to post it under his own name in case he falls fowl of his country's DMCA equivalent. Crazy. He said I could post his code under the condition that I took his name off it."

https://josephg.com/blog/apple-dictionaries-part-2/

Vocab adds a few other features such as adding new words, so it's a welcome addition to this space. It seems that most custom dictionaries use the Stardict format, so perhaps adding that file format would be a way to bring in more of the community.

And what was wrong with dict?

If this could have a thesaurus included, i'd set it up in a heartbeat.

Man, leaving in your typos in the first GIF "screen recording" is IMO just sloppy. It's the first thing I looked at on the page and, boom, it's a typo. Personally it gave me the impression of unprofessionality.

Bah! It is not a "command line", it is a shell!

this is badass, thanks