Dictionary Lookup

A ruby gem that wraps Pearson dictionary API

Getting started

You can add it to your Gemfile with:

gem 'dictionary_lookup'

or

You can install it directly

gem install dictionary_lookup

and then require it

require 'dictionary_lookup'

Usage

You can lookup a word definition by:

results = DictionaryLookup::Base.define("hello")

results will contain an array of DictionaryLookup::Definition objects.

results.count # => 1
results.first.part_of_speech # => "noun"
results.first.denotation # => "used as a greeting when you see or meet someone"
results.first.examples # => ["Hello, John! How are you?"]

You can specify different dictionary by passing dictionary in config hash. List of available dictionaries could be found here

results = DictionaryLookup::Base.define("hello", {dictionary: "wordwise"})