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"Requests for gender in Spanish entries",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish nouns with irregular gender",
"Spanish proper nouns",
"Spanish uncountable nouns",
"es:Departments of Colombia",
"es:Places in Colombia"
],
"glosses": [
"a department of Colombia"
],
"links": [
[
"department",
"department"
],
[
"Colombia",
"Colombia#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Meta"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Meta meaning in All languages combined (7.2kB)
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: historical, 2010–2022",
"path": [
"Meta"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Meta",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: historical, 2010–2022",
"path": [
"Meta"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Meta",
"trace": ""
}
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