The Free Dictionary Alternatives

Apps similar to The Free Dictionary include Google Translate, which is free. Other options are GoldenDict, Wiktionary, WordReference and Dictionary.com. You're spoiled for choice with Dictionaries like The Free Dictionary: we list more than 50 alternatives for the web, Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows.

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Firefox
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  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...

    51 Apple Dictionary alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. 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
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  4. StarDict icon
     35 likes

    Cross-platform and international dictionary.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • AmigaOS
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  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).

    109 QTranslate - Free Translator Software alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  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.

    108 Thesaurus.com alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. Linguin icon
     1 like

    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.

    105 Linguin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  8. SilverDict icon
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    This project is intended to be a modern, from-the-ground-up, maintainable alternative to GoldenDict(-ng), developed with Flask and React.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  9. iTranslate is a comprehensive translation tool offering over 100 languages, voice output customization, multiple dictionaries for context-specific translations, Romanization of non-Latin languages, and optimized text input, available on multiple platforms and devices.

    100 iTranslate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  10. 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
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  11. Saladict icon
     8 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
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