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You may have to install East Asian language support on various Windows versions. To see how you do it for Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP and Windows Vista, you may click here.

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You may download several dictionaries below in ".txt" format. They are all for personal use only and non-redistributable. After you make your choice of languages, click "Download Dictionary". Don't forget to check the little square on the second line before you click "Download the dictionary" on the page that appears next.

Download free dictionaries from the Universal Dictionary System Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Basque Bengali Bosnian Brazilian Portuguese Breton Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Faroese Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Interlingua Irish Italian Japanese Japanese Romaji Korean Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Maltese Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Bokmal Norwegian Nynorsk Papiamento Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovene Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Vietnamese Welsh to Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Basque Bengali Bosnian Brazilian Portuguese Breton Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Faroese Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Interlingua Irish Italian Japanese Japanese Romaji Korean Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Maltese Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Bokmal Norwegian Nynorsk Papiamento Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovene Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Vietnamese Welsh

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Download the Free WordWeb
  English Dictionary & Thesaurus (7.7MB,.exe,.zip)
WordWeb is a one-click English dictionary and Thesaurus for Windows that can look up words from in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Don't forget to read the rather eccentric licensing terms.
Features of the free version include:
Definitions and synonyms
Proper nouns
Related words
Pronunciations
150,000 root words
120,000 synonym sets
Look up words in almost any program

Download the Free TheSage's
  English Dictionary & Thesaurus (8.2MB,.exe,.zip)
TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a comprehensive and easy-to-use language reference system. It is a free professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system. TheSage can look up words directly from almost any program (IE, Word, Firefox, Outlook, Thunderbird,... ) and is 100% portable.

Download the Free
  Ainu-English World List (58K,.pdf)

Download the Free
  Buddhist Dictionary (1.4MB,.pdf,.zip)
This is a Pali-English manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines written by Ven. Nyanatiloka Maha Thera (1878-1957). Venerable Nyanatiloka was actually born near Franfurt, Germany.

Download the Free
  English-Catalan-English Dictionary (1.8MB,.html,.zip)
The directory "cateng" contains the Catalan-English files. The directory "engcat" contains the English-Catalan files. Enter the subdirectory "html" of the "cateng" directory and hit any one of the HTML alphabet files (a.html, b.html, ...) in it. Enter the subdirectory "html/FullDictionary" of the "engcat" directory and hit any of the alphabet files (a.html, b.html, ...) in it. Other options are also available.

Download the Maldives
  English-Dhivehi-English Dictionary (.pdf)
Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism, or review, no part may be reproduced for any process without permission from the copyright owners

Download the Free Hausa-English
  Vocabulary (200K,.pdf,.zip)
This vocabulary list comprises all the words that occur in the Hausar Baka video segments. For items with several English translations, the vocabulary attempts to list all the translations that the video segments call for, but with only a few exceptions, the list does not include translations which do not come up in the videos even though there may be other common meanings for those words.

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Download the Free Jalingo
  Dictionary Application (13MB,.exe,.zip)
This great free interface "understands" 4 types of dictionary types. We concentrate on the so-called "sdictionaries".

To use Jalingo, do the following:
(1) When the program loads for the first time, click the "Manage my dictionaries" tag.
(2) Click the green "+" sign in the upper left corner.
(3) Click twice "Sdictionary" on the left column.
(4) Direct the directory requester to the directory where you keep your downloaded dictionaries from the listing below, and click into the dictionary that you want to work with.
(5) Hit "Open".
(5) Hit "Continue" to come to "Parsing ...", "Sorting ...".
(6) Hit "Close" to come to "Building Merged index...".
(7) Hit any item on the left to see the translation/meaning on the right.
(8) You may REMOVE the existing dictionary from your Jalingo listing by hitting the "-" sign button on the right of the green "+" sign in the upper left corner, and then proceed as in steps (1)-(7).
(9) You should REMOVE the existing dictionary, as in (8), before you load another one.

There is currently a long list of such dictionaries involving the languages below:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Catalan, Chinese, Chuvash, Crimeantatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Inuit, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Karachi-Balkar, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Occitan, Ossetic, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scots-Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tatar, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Zulu.

We list below these dictionary databases that can be immediately downloaded. We will be adding more in the near future. Remember, these "sdictionaries" have the ending "dct".

Afrikaans-English Dictionary (155K,.dct)
Albanian-English Dictionary (115K,.dct)
English-Albanian Dictionary (123K,.dct)
English-Afrikaans Dictionary (180K,.dct)
English-Arabic Dictionary (4MB,.dct)
Russian-Arabic Dictionary (1.3MB,.dct)
Russian-Armenian Dictionary (806K,.dct)
Russian-Azerbaijani Dictionary (1.5MB,.dct)
Basque-English Dictionary (192K,.dct)
English-Basque Dictionary (181K,.dct)
Brazilian Portuguese-English Dictionary (1.1MB,.dct)
English-Brazilian Portuguese Dictionary (951K,.dct)
Bulgarian Synonyms Dictionary (3MB,.dct)
English-Bulgarian Computer Terms (47K,.dct)
Russian-Bulgarian Dictionary (274K,.dct)
Russian Bulgarian Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
Byelorussian-Russian Dictionary (3.3MB,.dct)
Russian-Byelorussian Mathematics and Physics
  Dictionary (1.8MB,.dct)
Russian-Byelorussian Mathematics Dictionary (224K,.dct)
Russian-Byelorussian Universal Dictionary (8.4MB,.dct)
Catalan English Dictionary (40K,.dct)
English-Catalan Dictionary (38K,.dct)
Russian-Catalan Dictionary (270K,.dct)
Chinese-English Dictionary (2MB,.dct)
Chinese-German Full Dictionary (8.9MB,.dct)
Chuvash-Russian Dictionary (342K,.dct)
Russian-Crimean Tatar Dictionary (583K,.dct)
Croatian-English Dictionary (5.1MB,.dct)
English-Croatian Dictionary (3MB,.dct)
Russian-Croatian Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
Czech-English Dictionary (4.7MB,.dct)
English-Czech Dictionary (3.2MB,.dct)
Czech-Russian Dictionary (553K,.dct)
Russian-Czech Dictionary (382K,.dct)
Russian-Czech Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
Danish-English Dictionary (300K,.dct)
English-Danish Dictionary (200K,.dct)
Dutch-English Dictionary (545K,.dct)
English-Dutch Dictionary (466K,.dct)
Dutch-Russian Full Dictionary (3.7MB,.dct)
Russian-Dutch Dictionary (1.6MB,.dct)
Estonian-English Dictionary (4MB,.dct)
English-Estonian Dictionary (4MB,.dct)
Estonian-Russian Dictionary (3.8MB,.dct)
Russian-Estonian Dictionary (878K,.dct)
Finnish-English Dictionary (3.6MB,.dct)
English-Finnish Dictionary (814K,.dct)
Finnish-Russian Short Dictionary (279K,.dct)
Russian-Finnish Dictionary (332K,.dct)
Russian Finnish Big Phrase Book (327K,.dct)
English-French Dictionary (1.9MB,.dct)
French-English Dictionary (2MB,.dct)
English-Georgian Dictionary (579K,.dct)
Russian-Georgian Phrase Book (7.2K,.dct)
German-Russian Dictionary I (829K,.dct)
German-Russian Dictionary II (12MB,.dct)
English-Greek Dictionary (1.22MB,.dct)
Greek Etymological Dictionary (13.9MB,.dct)
Russian-Greek Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
Hebrew Romanized-English Dictionary (117K,.dct)
English-Hebrew Romanized Dictionary (125K,.dct)
Hebrew-Russian Dictionary (2.5MB,.dct)
Russian-Hebrew Dictionary I (2.6MB,.dct)
Russian-Hebrew Dictionary II (3MB,.dct)
Russian-Hebrew Phrase Book (134K,.dct)
English-Hindi Dictionary (142K,.dct)
Hungarian-English Dictionary (5MB,.dct)
Hungarian-English Expressions Dictionary (2MB,.dct)
English-Hungarian Dictionary I (3.6MB,.dct)
English-Hungarian Dictionary II (4.5MB,.dct)
French-Hungarian Dictionary (1279K,.dct)
German-Hungarian Dictionary (1.1MB,.dct)
Hungarian-Russian Dictionary (1.7MB,.dct)
Russian-Hungarian Dictionary (1.8MB,.dct)
Russian-Hungarian Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
English-Icelandic Dictionary (208K,.dct)
Indonesian-English Dictionary (33K,.dct)
Russian-Indonesian Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
English-Indonesian Dictionary (42K,.dct)
Inuit-English Dictionary (33K,.dct)
English-Inuit Dictionary (33K,.dct)
English-Irish Gaelic Dictionary (446K,.dct)
English-Italian Dictionary (1.5MB,.dct)
Italian-Russian Dictionary (8.4MB,.dct)
Russian-Italian Phrase Book (11.3MB,.dct)
Japanese Romanized-English Dictionary (2.7MB,.dct)
English-Japanese Romanized Dictionary (2.5MB,.dct)
Japanese English Idiographs Dictionary (4MB,.dct)
Japanese-English Kanji Dictionary (8.4MB,.dct)
English-Japanese Dictionary (3.7MB,.dct)
Japanese-English Phonetic Dictionary (4.2MB,.dct)
Japanese-French Dictionary (27.3MB,.dct)
Japanese-German Full Dictionary (27MB,.dct)
Russian-Karachi Balkar Dictionary (155K,.dct)
Kazakh-Russian Dictionary (401K,.dct)
Russian-Kazakh Dictionary (159K,.dct)
Russian-Kirghiz Dictionary (191K,.dct)
Korean-English Full Dictionary (15MB,.dct)
Korean-Russian Short Dictionary (978K,.dct)
Kurdish-English Dictionary (154K,.dct)
English-Kurdish Dictionary (105K,.dct)
Latin-English Dictionary (440K,.dct)
English-Latin Dictionary (504K,.dct)
Latin-Russian Dictionary (642K,.dct)
Russian-Latin Dictionary (546K,.dct)
Latin-Russian Expressions Dictionary (63K,.dct)
Latvian-English Dictionary (69K,.dct)
English-Latvian Dictionary (41K,.dct)
Russian-Latvian Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
Lithuanian-English Dictionary (153K,.dct)
English-Lithuanian Dictionary (115K,.dct)
Lithuanian-Russian Dictionary (1.3MB,.dct)
Russian-Lithuanian Dictionary (1.2MB,.dct)
Russian-Lithuanian Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
Russian-Malay Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
Norwegian-English Dictionary (547K,.dct)
English-Norwegian Dictionary (517K,.dct)
Occitan-English Dictionary (62K,.dct)
English-Occitan Dictionary (52K,.dct)
Ossetic-Russian Dictionary (2MB,.dct)
English-Persian Dictionary (348K,.dct)
Polish-English Dictionary (262K,.dct)
English-Polish Dictionary (201K,.dct)
Polish-Russian Full Dictionary (7.5MB,.dct)
Russian-Polish Full Dictionary (7.8MB,.dct)
Russian-Polish Dictionary (942K,.dct)
Russian-Polish Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
Portuguese-English Dictionary (388K,.dct)
English-Portuguese Dictionary (296K,.dct)
Russian-Portuguese Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
Romanian-English Dictionary (132K,.dct)
English-Romanian Dictionary (119K,.dct)
Romanian-Russian Dictionary (632K,.dct)
English-Russian Business Dictionary (1.4MB,.dct)
English-Russian Computer Dictionary (1.6MB,.dct)
English-Russian Computer Security Dictionary (1.5MB,.dct)
English-Russian Dictionary of Contemporary Informal
  English (4MB,.dct)
English-Russian Economic Dictionary (1.4MB,.dct)
English-Russian Full Dictionary (67MB,.dct)
English-Russian Idioms Dictionary (1.1MB,.dct)
English-Russian Short Dictionary (8.6mb,.dct)
English-Russian Slang Dictionary (258K,.dct)
English-Scottish Gaelic Dictionary (64K,.dct)
Serbian-English Dictionary (1MB,.dct)
English-Serbian Dictionary I (827K,.dct)
English-Serbian Dictionary II (1.5MB,.dct)
Russian-Serbian Dictionary (429K,.dct)
Slovak-English Dictionary (134K,.dct)
English-Slovak Dictionary (137K,.dct)
Slovene-English Dictionary (158K,.dct)
English-Slovene Dictionary (112K,.dct)
English-Spanish Dictionary (1.6MB,.dct)
Spanish-English Dictionary (1.5MB,.dct)
Spanish-Russian Dictionary (3.6MB,.dct)
Russian-Spanish Dictionary (573K,.dct)
Russian-Spanish Phrase Book (11K,.dct)
Swahili-English Dictionary (34K,.dct)
Russian-Swahili Dictionary (1.1MB,.dct)
Swedish-English Dictionary (445K,.dct)