Linux
Under Linux (Unix) Woerdbook / Dictionary does not run, it might run wine. But fortunately there is another project, DICT (http://www.dict.org). It takes a client/server approach, very popular for linux.
Dict is a very powerful tool, also suitable for encyclopaedic entries, or phonetics realised through unicode capablity. For unicode support see: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/mgk25/ucsfonts.html, especially: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/mgk25/download/ucsfonts.tar.gz. For using the dicttools in command line, the unicode xterm should be used.
I myself use KDE, and installed the nice kdict client written by Matthias & Christian http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/gebauerc/kdict/ - unfortunately not yet supporting unicode.
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