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+Aard Dictionary is a free, fast, easy to use word lookup program written in Python that
+* looks up words fast even with huge dictionaries like English Wikipedia
+* looks up words in multiple dictionaries in multiple languages without switching
+* works great as offline Wikipedia reader
+* can be used from FBReader, CoolReader and AlReader
+
+http://aarddict.org