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Download a Kindle-compatible version of the dictionary here. Unzip the .rar archive.
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Get the "Send to Kindle" program on your computer. Here's the link for the Mac.
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Right-click your recently downloaded (unzipped) dictionary file, and click the "Send to Kindle" menu item. It will arrive on your Kindle shortly.
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Once the dictionary has arrived, go to your settings -- on my newish paperwhite, it's at Home > Settings > Device Options > Language and Dictionaries > Dictionaries > English. Choose the Webster's 1913.
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Voila! Every time you highlight a word, you should get Webster's definition.
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May 19, 2014 01:42
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How to make the Webster's 1913 your default Kindle dictionary
On my Kindle 6 inch e ink, to install the new dictionary I just needed to drag and drop Websters Dictionary 1913_ver21-stnd.prc into my Kindle's documents/ directory and set it to the default in Settings / Dictionaries.
In the iOS Kindle app, after the Dictionary has been delivered to the device, open a book and highlight a word to define. There will be a button in the bottom left of the definition that when clicked will let you select a new dictionary. Webster's 1913 should be in the list.
Awesome. Thanks!
.prc file format is not supported when I tried to send the file to my kindle through email. Maybe I can work around that by using USB.
One thing to note is that looking up words using the default dictionary (New American Oxford) is "smarter", while flipping to Webster's is a bit "dumber". Looking up different verb forms of a word won't produce results in Webster's. For instance, highlighting "obliged" to look it up won't show any results, even though its root "oblige" is in the dictionary. If you highlighting "obliged" to look it up in the default dictionary (New American Oxford), you'll get the right definition for its root word.
It says it downloaded but I cannot find it on my device
On my Kindle paperwhite, as of 2019-06-09 the navigation is: home -> settings -> all settings -> Languages & Dictionaries -> Dictionaries -> English
Hey! The link doesn't open...
The 1st one I mean.
@joaolmaliska Thanks for the note. Sadly I'm not sure how I found that link the first place. If anyone can find a replacement, post a comment here and I'll fix the gist.
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Thanks!