There are a lot of third-party dictionaries the program can work with. Here we list some common sources for them.
A due disclaimer: no dictionary files are hosted here on this site,except for a couple ones which are well known and which probably don't actively infringe on any copyrights.If you download any dictionary content referred from this page or from any other page on this site, it's solely you who are liable for any possible arising copyright infringements.
List of Stardict Dictionary Files Providers This list contains websites where you can download many language dictionaries and other dictionaries at no cost (gratis). Great thanks to the authors of these sites like Huzheng again, tuxor1337, and all. Stardict-en-ru-bigdict.torrent: En-En Dictionaries: AHD Indo-European and Semitic Roots Supplement (En-En) tarbal: 1M: American Heritage Dictionary 4th Ed. Converting a dictionary to StarDict format. The KTranslator project provides dictconv, a tool for converting between dictionary formats. It converts Babylon, Freedict, and Sdictionary formats to StarDict. In Debian, just install dictconv. Stardicter is a Python tool for converting various dictionary formats to the StarDict format.
Unfortunately, much of the dictionary content is non-free, and this area is generally known to be very murky. Therefore:
YOU USE ANY LINKS POSTED HERE SOLELY ON YOUR OWN RISK
Stardict Dictionaries French English
We recommend to encourage dictionary content creators by buying their dictionary content. Buy it, then throw away their junk program and useyour legally bought content with GoldenDict instead.
Now for the links.
Stardict Dictionaries French Quarter
Babylon (.bgl) dictionaries
Those can be downloaded here, from the official Babylon site.If instead of .bgl files you are getting .exe installers, use 7Zip to extract them(use full version of 7Zip, the one which supports CAB files). The .bgl files would be inside.
Some dictionaries are free, someare provided on a try-and-buy basis. We encourage you to buy them after you've tried them if you've decided you're going to keepusing them.ABBYY Lingvo .dsl dictionary files
Since Lingvo is a product of a Russian company, most sites here are in Russian. Nevertheless, many of the availabledictionaries have nothing to with the Russian language themselves, so you can try finding what you want evenif you don't read Russian.
As a starting point, there's a large catalogue here. It lists virtually all the dictionaries ever made for Lingvo,but no files are hosted there -- only links at best. Use it to find whether or not the dictionary you are searchingfor indeed exists -- and sometimes the download link is present, as well.Also notice that this site has a list of other sites with .dsl dictionaries, here.
Quite a lot of nice dictionaries are hosted here, all are readily downloadable.
Here's another site devoted to Lingvo dictionaries' creation.
And this forum thread is all about creating user dictionaries in .dsl format. It has a lot of content created already,and the members are very active. You will need registration in order to read it, though.
Some Lingvo dictionaries are only available in a binary .lsd format. Those are .dsl in compiled form. There's no official wayto unpack them back to .dsl, though some unofficial ways do exist. If you absolutely need to convert some .lsd back to.dsl, you can try the forum thread mentioned, or just try googling.
Our official position on the decompilation of the Lingvo's official dictionaries is as follows: We believe that if you legally own a copy of theLingvo program, you are eligible to be able to use your dictionaries underany other program of your choice, and therefore you should be allowed to decompile those dictionaries in order to get them into an interoperable form. However, this act may be expressely forbidden by the Lingvo EULA. Whether thisis legal or not is questionable. Consult your lawyer if you have doubts.