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

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