Merriam-Webster Search

A Simple Extension for VSCode to easily look up words in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Adapted from Kamesh Kotwani's Google-Search extension.

What it does

If you're not sure about what a word means if you're using it correctly, you can highlight it and look it up in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

How it works

Simply select the word you want to search, then right click and click on Search Webster's Dictionary in drop-down menu.

See it in Action

When you select the text and right click you'll see Search Webster's Dictionary in your drop-down menu

How it opens in browser

If you encounter any issues, please let me know here

This extension was made possible by Ciprian Burca and Kamesh Kotwani

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As of 2022-07-23 I haven't published this to the vscode marketplace, but you can clone this repo and build it using vsce to get a vsix package to install into vscode manually.

To do so, follow these steps:

- Run npm install -g vsce - Run vsce package - Install the package in vscode by running code --install-extension webster-search-0.0.1.vsix

As of 2022-08-03, it's live on the marketplace!