How to use Google dictionary as a word translator

span class=”drop_class”>I am a content provider, a ghost writer, a columnist, a freelance journalist and in the course of my professional career, I come across a lot of words, some mundane and other not so mundane, some beautiful and others that are archaic and so on and so forth.  There are times when I will have to make it my business to know the meaning of some of those words.  One such is the longest non-coined and nontechnical word in English language is,  ‘Antidisestablishmentarianism.’   That word has about 28 alphabets of the English language.  Wanna bet?

Well, I was researching about various ‘isms’ that are sort of ‘established’ and then there were some that were ‘dis’establishing these established ‘ism’s and I also came across some of the other words that were ‘anti’ dis-establishments and then wanted to understand what is so cool about being ‘dis’ about the ‘established’ and then be ‘anti’ about the ‘dis’ and ..hey what’s happening to you?  You look as though you are hit between your eyes.  Sit down. Relax. Let us forget all about that, ‘Anti..’ OK..OK.  None of that.  Cool it.

I usually either go to answers.com if that tab is open in my Firefox or just get to Google Search Engine addon and punch in ‘define: Antidisestablishmentarianism’. So I went to Google dictionary and entered ‘define:Antidisestablishmentarianism’  and hit the enter key.  Guess what?  I had  two results, yes, just two results.  One from the Wikipedia and the other from Wiktionary. But how many of us know that there is a Google Dictionary around? And that too with some 25+ languages built in to help you with the meaning of an English word?

All you have to do is click on the English dictionary tab and it opens a dropdown list.  It is pretty intuitive.  Choose your language option.  To get back to the main English – English menu look for the English dictionary option in the drop down list and click on it.  You are back to your English – English dictionary.  If you are logged into your Gmail account, when you are looking for the meanings, you will find all your searches in your web history. I think that is pretty cool.

This is the home page for Google Dictionary.

Go power up your “Word Power’!