ColorDict Dictionary

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About this app

Search for words in Wikipedia, Wordnet and StarDict dictionaries. It's the best all-in-one dictionary in the market.

• A quick search multiple online & offline dictionaries at once
• Download free dictionaries such as StarDict-compatible dictionaries from the market and internet

Features
• Quick Search Box
• Long-click to share search results: Send results to other apps
• Word jump: Click a word to go to search results for that word
• Word suggestion: See auto-completions for partially entered words.
• Search history
• Customize color of dictionary
• Text-to-speech
• Voice recognition
• Supports ColorNote App: ColorNote dictionary integration
• Supports E-book Reader integration

Supported offline dictionaries:
• English Wordnet offline dictionary (included)
• English thesaurus offline dictionary (included)
• English <-> Japanese StarDict offline dictionary (Download Add-On)
• English <-> Chinese StarDict offline dictionary (Download Add-On)
• English <-> German StarDict offline dictionary (Download Add-On)
• English <-> Spanish StarDict offline dictionary (Download Add-On)
• Bible offline dictionary (stardict)

Supported online dictionary
• Wikipedia encyclopedia (included)

How to download StarDict dictionary from the internet.
• Download the file to your PC
• Copy compressed file (tar.bz2, *.tar.gz, *.zip) to sdcard /dictdata directory
or
• Dict - Menu - Direct Download - Enter URL

E-Book Readers integrated with ColorDict
• FBReader, Moon+ Reader, Cool Reader, ezPDF Reader

Developer support
• Supports Dictionary API for third-party developers

Ratings and reviews

I have used this app for four or five years with FBReader. I just switched to an Samsung S10 and installed the dictionary and data files. Everything works great except both American and British voices sound identical (American English). Edit: I'm not sure what happened, but I now have both pronunciations. Perhaps something updated? Giving 5 stars.

Developer: please enable definitions in all dictionaries to be presented in light fonts against a black background, for comfortable night-time reading. Bright white backgrounds in the middle of the night are disturbing. Otherwise this is an excellent dictionary system! Meanings are instantly supplied as I read. My favourite dictionaries are Webster's, Concise Oxford, and Brittanica.

I don't know what is wrong with all the previous users, but I find the app very easy to install every time I change phones. It first asks me to install an offline dictionary, which I do from the provided link, then it functions flawlessly. Thanks for your work! EDIT: Removing a star now. The wikipedia results show at the top of the result lists, making me scroll all the time. I can't find a way to sort the results or to deactivate wikipedia.