Adding Dictionary Kindle For Mac

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  1. Adding Dictionary Kindle For Macbook Pro
  2. Kindle For Macbook
  3. Adding Dictionary Kindle For Mac Computer
  • In the Dictionary app on your Mac, type a word or phrase in the search field in the upper-right corner of the Dictionary window. Note: If you add another Dictionary source, wait for it to download completely before searching for a word or phrase. For information about adding sources, see.
  • This works for both Kindle devices and Kindle apps for phones and tablets. Go to Amazon’s Send to Kindle page. Follow instructions for installing the app for your platform (PC, Mac, Android). Upload the downloaded dictionary file using Send to Kindle. Alternatively, send it to yourself by email.

Dictionary search via keyboard input is supported on the Kindle for iPad, Kindle for iPhone, Kindle for Android, Kindle for Mac, and Kindle for PC. To search in one of these apps, open the dictionary from your Library, and then click on the magnifying glass icon to bring up the search interface. In contrast to Kindle.

This post is about all the things I’ve got about Kindle dictionary. If you want to figure out how to add dictionary to Kindle, where to download Kindle dictionary files, this post is what you need.

Table of Contents

  • Kindle’s built-in dictionaries
    • Add dictionary kindle
  • WordNet Kindle dictionaries
  • Other 3rd party Kindle dictionaries (collect from internet)
  • How to install dictionaries to Kindle (the E-Ink models)
  • How to add a second dictionary to a language

    • 1. Kindle’s built-in dictionaries

    Adding Dictionary Kindle For Macbook Pro

    By default a Kindle contains 11 dictionaries, covering almost all the major languages in the world. For instance, you are a US Kindle user, when you activate your Kindle the Eng-Eng dictionary is already contained. When you buy a French book, the Fr-Eng dictionary will be downloaded automatically.

    So, you won’t able to see all these 11 dictionaries (maybe more) in your Kindle device, however, you can see them in your Kindle Cloud.

    Manage Your Contents and Devices –> “Contents” –> “Show: Dictionaries&User Guides”

    2. WordNet Kindle dictionaries

    WordNet is a lexical database for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short definitions and usage examples, and records a number of relations among these synonym sets or their members. — Source: WikiPedia

  • WordNet 3 Infused ES English + Spanish ｜ Download(19MB);
  • WordNet 3 Infused TR English + Turkish ｜ Download(17MB);
  • WordNet 3 Infused CN English + Chinese simplified ｜ Download(18MB);
  • WordNet 3 Infused IT English + Italian ｜ Download(19MB);
  • WordNet 3 Infused FR English + French ｜ Download(20MB);
  • WordNet 3 Infused RU English + Russian ｜ Download(21MB);
  • WordNet 3 Infused RO English + Romanian ｜ Download(16MB);
  • WordNet 3 Infused PT English + Portuguese ｜ Download(19MB);
  • WordNet 3 Infused CN English + Chinese traditional ｜ Download(18MB);
  • WordNet 3 Infused LV English + Latvian ｜ Download(17MB);
  • WordNet 3 Infused TH English + Thai ｜ Download(19MB);

    • Kindle For Macbook

    WordNet official site: http://eb.lv/dict/

    3. Other 3rd party Kindle dictionaries (collect from internet)

    Please note that some of these 3rd party Kindle dictionaries are hand-made by normal Kindle users, so the quality can’t be guaranteed, and some of them may be only for old Kindle models.

  • Spanish to English dictionary by Dave Slusher and Mac Sturm ｜ Download(4MB);
  • Apertium project Afrikaans -> English ｜ Download(0.4MB);
  • Apertium project Esperanto -> English｜ Download(1.4MB);
  • Apertium project French -> English ｜ Download(0.5MB);
  • Apertium project German -> English ｜ Download(16.2MB);
  • Apertium project Polish -> English ｜ Download(0.7MB);
  • Apertium project Portuguese -> English ｜ Download(0.4MB);
  • Apertium project Spanish -> English ｜ Download(0.7MB);
  • Apertium project Welsh -> English ｜ Download(0.6MB);

    • 4. How to install dictionaries to Kindle (the E-Ink models)

    1. Get Kindle dictionaries ready, they are mobi or prc files in general.
    2. Connect your Kindle to computer with USB cable.
    3. Copy and paste the dictionary file into “documentsdictionaries” folder.
    4. Safely eject Kindle from computer.
    5. Open your Kindle and follow the guide below.
    • Kindle Voyage ／ Kindle Paperwhite (1/2/3) ／ Kindle 7
      Home -> Menu -> Settings -> Device Options -> Language and Dictionaries -> Dictionaries
    • Kindle 3 (Kindle Keyboard)
      Home -> Menu -> Settings -> Menu -> Change Primary Dictionary
    • Kindle 4 (five-way controller)
      Home -> Menu -> Settings -> Dictionaries
    • Kindle Touch
      Home -> Menu -> Settings -> Dictionaries
    • Kindle DXG
      Home -> Menu -> Settings -> Menu -> Change Primary Dictionary

    5. How to add a second dictionary to a language

    The process is almost the same with the Part 4, when you reach the Dictionaries screen on your Kindle, tap on a language, if there are more than one dictionaries for this language, you shall see them all, then just choose the one you want to set as default dictionary for this language.

    You can’t use two dictionaries for a language at the same time.

    Adding Dictionary Kindle For Mac Computer

    For those of you who might have ELLs in your class, or maybe you’re simply studying another language for your own pleasure, you might have found yourself in the situation where you don’t want to have the Kindle in one hand, and your smartphone dictionary app open in another.

    Many people don’t know that Kindle actually introduced a translate feature right into the device. In fact, at the moment it can translate into 16 different languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

    Japanese happens to be my language of choice, so I’m going to use that as an example.

    Let’s take a look:

    1) Open your book. I’ve chosen Flatland, but the nerdiness of your choice is completely up to you:

    2) Highlight your text or word. Simply touch the word you want, or touch and drag your finger across the phrase that you’re looking to translate.

    Then, tap on the “More…” option.

    3) Choose “Translation” from the menu that pops up.

    By default it will go to English:English. After you’ve chosen the language that you want, it will set that as its default choice.

    4) Tap on the “To: English” Box


    There’s your list of languages. As mentioned before, my choice is Japanese, so…

    5) Slide your finger up and down the screen to see your options. Tap on Japanese (or the language you or your student wants)

    6) View the translation!

    Adding Dictionary Kindle For Mac

    Here I chose the text “Imagine a vast sheet of paper” and it translated it to ”紙の広大なシートを想像します。” Which, minus the imperative form is actually pretty spot on.

    Dictionary

    Give it a try and let me know if you get any interesting returns.

    NOTES to be aware of:

    Mac

    1) While the value of direct translation is fairly low, and the technique as pedagogy is frowned upon, I think looking up the occasional word while trying to read a book in English is something to be encouraged.

    2) The translation works through an online service, so if you’re using a wifi only kindle and are not in a hotspot, the translation won’t work