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A dictionary file is a file that describes the format of flat text files. Dictionary files have either a dic or dict extension. They can be manually created text files, or files generated by the VI Fileout Output Object.
Oxford Dictionary of English on the App Store.
The Gutenberg Project hosts Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary plus many other public domain literary works. Actually it looks like they've got several versions of the dictionary hosted with copyright from different years. The one I linked has a 2009 copyright. You may want to poke around the site and investigate the different versions of Webster's dictionary.
user1247808 has a good link with: wget -c
http://www.androidtech.com/downloads/wordnet20-from-prolog-all-3.zip
If that isn't enough words for you:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/latest/enwiktionary-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz (updated url from Michael Kropat's suggestion)
Although that file name changes, you'll want to find the latest ... that turns out just to be a big (very big) text file.
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/
I dont know if its too late, but i thought it would help someone else.
I wanted the same badly...found it eventually.
Maybe its not perfect,but to me its adequate(for my little dictionary app).
http://www.androidtech.com/downloads/wordnet20-from-prolog-all-3.zip
Its not a dump file, but a MYSQL .sql script file
The words are in WN_SYNSET table and the glossary/meaning in the WN_GLOSS table
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