define

📘 Define

Offline English dictionary for your terminal.

Features

• 🌱 Offline-first: ships with an embedded English dictionary.
• ✨ Fast lookups: optimized SQLite with tuned pragmas.
• 🧠 Smart resolution: handles inflections and suggests close matches.
• 🗣️ Pronunciations: included when available.
• 📃 Rich lexical data: definitions, synonyms, antonyms, examples, and more.
• 🖌️ Readable output: clean, colorized terminal formatting.
• 🎟️ JSON mode: script-friendly output with --json.

Usage

Simply pass a word as an argument to look it up:

define <word>

Options:

• --json: Output results in structured JSON format.
• --version: Display the current app version.

Installation

For Linux 64-bit:

curl -sL https://codeberg.org/commitsovercoffee/define/releases/download/v1.0.0/define-linux-amd64 \
  -o define && chmod +x define && sudo mv define /usr/local/bin/

For macOS Intel (64-bit):

curl -sL https://codeberg.org/commitsovercoffee/define/releases/download/v1.0.0/define-darwin-amd64 \
  -o define && chmod +x define && sudo mv define /usr/local/bin/

For macOS Apple Silicon (arm64):

curl -sL https://codeberg.org/commitsovercoffee/define/releases/download/v1.0.0/define-darwin-arm64 \
  -o define && chmod +x define && sudo mv define /usr/local/bin/

Uninstallation

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/define # remove app
rm -rf ~/.config/define/ # remove data

Credits

• Linguistic Data: Open English WordNet.
• Data Source: Open English WordNet SQLite Distribution.
• Database Engine: modernc.org/sqlite (CGO-free).
• Language: Built with Go.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU AGPLv3.