Google Dictionary
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 The Google logo was used on the site. | |
screenshot The Google Dictionary home page | |
Type of site | Online dictionary |
|---|---|
| Available in | (see below) |
| Owner | |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | optional |
Google Dictionary was an online dictionary service of Google, originating in its Google Translate service.
The Google Dictionary website was terminated on August 5, 2011 after part of its functionality was integrated into Google Search using the define: operator.
It was believed that, until August 2010, Google used many definitions from Collins COBUILD.[1] COBUILD entries were easy to recognize by their characteristic full-sentence definitions as well as grammar codes such as [N-VAR], which in Google Dictionary went unexplained. In August 2010, a blog site reported that Google Dictionary switched from the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary to the Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English as its English definitions provider.[2] This report, although close, was not quite accurate, as in fact the content now came from another Oxford dictionary, the Oxford American College Dictionary.[3]
In August 2011, Google Dictionary was discontinued as a separate service, although similar results have been incorporated into the Google search sidebar.
Languages
| Fully served | |
|---|---|
| Language | Dictionary |
| Pashto | |
| English | Oxford American College Dictionary |
| French | |
| German | |
| Italian | |
| Korean | |
| Spanish | |
| Russian | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | OXFORD ADVANCED LEARNER'S English-Chinese Dictionary |
| Chinese (Simplified) | |
| Portuguese | |
| Hindi | |
| Dutch (monolingual only) | |
| Finnish | |
| Hebrew | |
| Czech | |
| Greek | |
| Bulgarian | |
| Croatian | |
| Serbian | |
| Bengali | |
| Malayalam | |
| Telugu | |
| Tamil | |
| Gujarati | |
| Thai | |
| Arabic | |
| Kannada | |
| Marathi | |
| Dictionary in Google Translate | |
| Language | Dictionary |
| Albanian | |
| Azerbaijani | |
| Indonesian | |
| Estonian | |
| Armenian | |
| Arabic | |
| Persian | |
| Filipino | |
| Dutch | |
| Swedish | |
| Japanese | |
| Latin | |
| Polish | |
| Latvian | |
| Lithuanian | |
| Hungarian | |
| Romanian | |
| Slovak | |
| Turkish | |
| Ukrainian | |
| Vietnamese | |
| Yiddish | |
| No dictionary (translation only) | |
| Language | Dictionary |
| Afrikaans | N/A |
| Basque | N/A |
| Belarusian | N/A |
| Danish | N/A |
| Welsh | N/A |
| Galician | N/A |
| Georgian | N/A |
| Haitian Creole | N/A |
| Irish | N/A |
| Icelandic | N/A |
| Catalan | N/A |
| Macedonian | N/A |
| Malay | N/A |
| Maltese | N/A |
| Nepali | N/A |
| Norwegian | N/A |
| Slovenian | N/A |
| Swahili | N/A |
| Urdu | N/A |
See also
References
- ^ Brett Reynolds. "English, Jack". English-jack.blogspot.com. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
- ^ Alex Chitu. "Google Dictionary Has a New Content Provider". Google Operating System. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
- ^ "Repozytorium Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza (AMUR): Online dictionaries of English". Hdl.handle.net. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
External links
- Google Dictionary Extension for Google Chrome
- Google Dictionary Online — Provides a service via its JSON API
- How to visit Google Dictionary
