TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus
TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system.
TheSage can look up words directly from almost any program (IE, Word, Firefox, Outlook, Thunderbird,... ) and is 100% portable.
Feature List
TheSage allows you to look up words directly from most applications, offering multiple detailed definitions each coupled with its own thesaurus.
Some of the most interesting characteristics of TheSage are:
| Features | Description |
| Comprehensive Dictionary | Multiple detailed definitions (+210,000) |
| Complete Thesaurus | Nearly 1,400,000 relationships between definitions (synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms,...) |
| Example Sentences | A large collection that already includes approximately 50,000 examples of usage. |
| Pronunciations | +70,000 phonetic transcriptions. |
| System Integration | Look up words directly from most applications. |
| Information Integration | Each definition has its own specific thesaurus. |
| Cross-Referencing | Any and all displayed words are clickable, triggering a new lookup. |
| Wildcard Search | Match single/multiple characters as well as filter by single/groups of vowels and consonants. |
| Anagram Search | Only valid english words are returned. |
| Portability | Fully functional when run from portable devices such as a USB. |
| Clipboard Support | Copy search results, examples, thesauri, definitions. |
| Tabbed Interface | Previous lookups and searches remain readily available. |
| Structured Display | Clean, flexible, fast, and easy to use presentation of information. |
| Price | Absolutely 100% free of charge. |
| Custom Appearance | Choose your own font and color for each aspect of the display. |
| Multi-Session History | Quickly available via dropdown or the 'History' tool. |
| Concordancer | Definition and example concordancer tools (so-called 'reverse search'. |
| Semantic similarity | User-defined custom thesaurus. |
| Online search | Search Wikipedia, Google define/translate, or any other web address directly from TheSage. |
| 'As you type' tool | Browse TheSage's index real-time. |
| Phonetic search | Carry out relatively sophisticated pattern searches of the phonetic transcriptions (pronunciations) in the database./td> |
| Spell-/sounds-like assistant | TheSage will help you if you can't quite remember the word you are looking for. |
| Speech | TheSage can be turned into a speaking dictionary. Click on the phonetic transcription of a lookup to hear how it is pronounced or have TheSage read all or part of any lookup. |
Download
Download the latest version of TheSage. You do not need to uninstall previous versions of TheSage. The installer makes sure your settings are kept when upgrading (if upgrading from version 1.4.0, previous settings will be lost but the history can be optionally imported). Side-by-side installation is safe.
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Windows 95, 98, Me, and 2000 are no longer supported. The latest version to support these Windows versions is 1.4.0 and can be downloaded below.
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The following independent organizations certify that "TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus" is free of spyware, adware, viruses, trojans, and any other kind of malaware.
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Screenshots
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