Check word definitions and spellings in an online dictionary
GNOME Dictionary is a simple dictionary application that looks up
definitions of words online.
Though it looks up English definitions by default, you can easily switch to
Spanish or add other online dictionaries using the DICT protocol to suit your
needs.
Enable snaps on Ubuntu and install GNOME Dictionary
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
Install GNOME Dictionary
To install GNOME Dictionary, simply use the following command: