dictionary-cli

CLI wrapper for dictionaryapi.dev. Search for word definitions and memorize words. Helpful for building your vocabulary.

Demo

Installation

For Arch Linux/ Arch based distributions

• There is a gowords package in the AUR (Arch User Repository)
• The package can be easily installed using an AUR helper, for example: yay

yay -S gowords

For Other Linux Distributions / macOS

• Download the binary file from github releases (darwin-amd64 is the macOS release)
• Latest version can be found on the releases page

wget https://github.com/Parth576/dictionary-cli/releases/download/<version>/gowords-linux-amd64

• Make the binary executable

chmod +x /path/to/binary/gowords-linux-amd64
./path/to/binary/gowords-linux-amd64 search <word>

For Windows

• Download the windows release (.exe extension)
• In Powershell / cmd, navigate to the folder where the binary is downloaded

.\gowords-windows-amd64.exe help

Features

• Search for definitions by word

gowords search <word>
gowords search obsequious

• Flashcards like wordlist to build your vocabulary

gowords random
gowords random --number 5  
gowords random -n 3

• Export your wordlist to share it with someone or to back it up

gowords export

• Import any wordlist (Format: Single word on every line)

gowords import <filepath>
gowords import wordlist.txt

• Delete any word from wordlist

gowords delete <word>