Dictionary Anywhere

Dictionary Anywhere is a Firefox add-on that was made for individuals who need to quickly access words' meanings while keeping an active focus on the text they are scanning through.

Dictionary Anywhere is a well-built browser extension. Like most add-ons, they are aimed at making our life easier. Also, regarding this niche, when looking at online dictionaries and linguistic tools, there is a plethora of them, which means competition is extremely high.

What is Dictionary Anywhere's distinctive advantage? Well, it integrates Google's technology. Why is this better than anything else on the market? Because Google is a giant in tech. The company uses AI, machine learning algorithms, and constantly improves based on users' active engagement and interaction with their tools and their search engine (which is the most performant and widely used, in the world).

The programmer who developed Dictionary Anywhere decided to first create the API for Google Dictionary (as Google did not make it available). After making the googleDictionaryAPI, the developer made Google's extensive dictionary database accessible through the Firefox add-on.

The main functionality is to provide a dictionary that is correlated to Google's database. That means that by searching a word on Google, you would get the exact same definition as the one provided by Dictionary Anywhere. The add-on does not insert an icon in your toolbar, but it can be found in the Add-ons section. From here, you can set it and define its permissions.

When double-clicking any word and visualizing its definition, you also have access to the listening option. The speaker icon, once pressed, will recite the word for you. The 'More' button will open, in a new window, the Google search results for that particular word (including the definition, contextual synonyms, examples, etc).

Dictionary Anywhere is quite an interesting and cool browser plug-in. Besides English, it supports Spanish, German, and French. Also, you can set the add-on to display pop-up definitions with different key triggers, store words and definitions of items you looked for, and finally download the list of words and their definitions in a TXT file.

If you're not convinced yet, give Dictionary Anywhere a try. It will definitely make a difference and will help you save precious time.