See astir on Wiktionary
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},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:in motion",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "cursory"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:in motion",
"word": "dynamic"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:in motion",
"word": "in motion"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:in motion",
"word": "mobile"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:in motion",
"word": "moving"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:in motion",
"word": "on the move"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:in motion",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "on the wing"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:in motion",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "under sail"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:in motion",
"word": "unstill"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
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114,
119
]
],
"ref": "1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, pages 104-105:",
"text": "I had but a broken sleep the night before, in anticipation of the pleasure of a whole day with Em’ly. We were all astir betimes in the morning;",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
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19,
24
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"ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the second (Maiden No More), page 154:",
"text": "‘It is early to be astir this Sabbath morn,’ he said cheerfully.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
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49,
54
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],
"ref": "1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 12, in Things Fall Apart, New York, N.Y.: Astor-Honor, published 1959, →OCLC, part 1, page 115:",
"text": "Ezinma was still sleeping when everyone else was astir,",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Out of bed; up and about."
],
"links": [
[
"bed",
"bed"
],
[
"up and about",
"up and about"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈstɜː/",
"tags": [
"Australia",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈstɝ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈstɪr/",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈstøː/",
"tags": [
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈsteː/",
"note": "Liverpool, fair–fur merger"
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈstɛː/",
"note": "Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger"
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈstɜː(ɹ)/",
"note": "Lancashire, fair–fur merger"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "Astaire (fair–fur merger)"
}
],
"word": "astir"
}
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