sdcv

sdcv is a simple, cross-platform, text-based utility for working with dictionaries in StarDict format.
— sdcv

Ordering dictionaries

For example, you can run:

$ sdcv -l
Dictionary's name   Word count
oxford    43808
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate    119769

you take the first column of output, in other words Dictionary’s name, and put it to ~/.sdcv_ordering line by line:

# optimal dictionary ordering: Apersyan, Lingvo Universal, Motitsky, Babylon,
# etc
$ cat ~/.sdcv_ordering
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
oxford
$

that’s all, at the next run of sdcv, for example sdcv man you get at first translation from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate and after that from oxford dictionary and after that all other translations.

References

• Index of /Recommend/ dictionaries
• Словариум — Словари для компьютеров и смартфонов