The Free Dictionary Alternatives

The Free Dictionary is described as 'Online Dictionary - Multiple dictionaries including: English dictionary, medical dictionary, legal dictionary, financial dictionary, computer dictionary, thesaurus, dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations, dictionary of idioms, thesaurus, Columbia encyclopedia, Wikipedia' and is a Dictionary in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to The Free Dictionary for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows apps. The best The Free Dictionary alternative is Google Translate, which is free. Other great apps like The Free Dictionary are GoldenDict, Wiktionary, Translate You and WordReference.

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  1. Power Thesaurus icon
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    Power Thesaurus is a fast, comprehensive and easy-to-follow online thesaurus for writers, journalists, students and teachers.

    29 Power Thesaurus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Firefox
     
  2. Your Mac also comes with a versatile Dictionary application. It also includes to other reference libraries such as thesaurus, Apple glossary, and Wikipedia. With it, you can find definitions, learn of the word's origin, find synonyms and antonyms, or get encyclopedic...

    50 Apple Dictionary alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. StarDict icon
     35 likes

    Cross-platform and international dictionary.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • AmigaOS
     
  4. Whether you're deciphering error logs over RDP sessions, playing video games without English patches, or keeping up with international Discord chats, our offline OCR tool translates it all instantly.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Free, open-source desktop translation tool. Select text anywhere, press Ctrl+Q, translation appears — no browser needed. Plugin-based, so when a service breaks you swap the plugin. Includes Google, Bing, and AI plugins (Gemini, GPT, Mistral, Claude).

    92 QTranslate - Free Translator Software alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. Thesaurus.com icon
     11 likes

    Comprehensive free thesaurus offering over 3 million synonyms and antonyms for precise language use with filters for relevance, length, and complexity, trusted worldwide for enhancing English language skills, and developed by Dictionary.com, LLC.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Linguin icon
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    Linguin is an AI translation tool built around Google Gemini rather than statistical machine translation engines. The core difference is context-awareness: Linguin uses a language model that understands sentence-level nuance, idiomatic expressions, register, and formatting.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  8. Wordnik icon
     19 likes

    Wordnik is an online English dictionary and language resource that provides dictionary and thesaurus content.Some of the content is based on print dictionaries such as the Century Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, WordNet, and GCIDE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. SilverDict icon
     1 like

    This project is intended to be a modern, from-the-ground-up, maintainable alternative to GoldenDict(-ng), developed with Flask and React.

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  10. Visuwords icon
     7 likes

    The fun and free way to look up definitions. THE graphical dictionary and visual thesaurus. We love words

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Saladict icon
     8 likes

    Saladict is a professional inline translator browser extension, built for comparative reading, with comprehensive dictionaries covering all major languages.

    113 Saladict alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
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