How to use local dictionary to my app?

In My applicatio开发者_Python百科n, how should i find meaning of the word, it should work both online and offline? Please help me out also is there any possiblilite to take local dictionary from iphone?

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As far as I am currently aware, you aren't able to query the iPhone's built in dictionary.

Even if you could, I am not sure that it contains any definitions. Rather it looks for spelling correction on "close" words.

If you are wanting to replicate storing a dictionary inside your app, like the many dictionary apps currently out there, you would have to store the data in your iPhone app somehow.

Wikitionary provides free "dumps" of it's data which you could grab, and put into a form that would be usable in your app.

You would need to store the data in some form of plist, an SQLite database or CoreData.

For taking data from the internet, you would need to look at transferring the data using JSON, XML or PLIST.