"frown on" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "frowns on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frowning on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frowned on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frowned on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frown upon",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "frown on (third-person singular simple present frowns on, present participle frowning on, simple past and past participle frowned on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coach frowns on smoking, even in the off-season.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948 January and February, “British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:",
          "text": "The three \"Greats\" (Great Eastern, Great Central, and Great Northern) were prepared to amalgamate, but Parliament continued to frown on such proposals.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Sally Rooney, “Two Days Later (April 2011)”, in Normal People:",
          "text": "Is it because of her mother? said Lorraine. You think she'd frown on you?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To disapprove of (something or someone, often a behavior); to express disapproval of (something or someone)."
      ],
      "id": "en-frown_on-en-verb-jkxec-Rr",
      "links": [
        [
          "disapprove",
          "disapprove"
        ],
        [
          "express",
          "express"
        ],
        [
          "disapproval",
          "disapproval"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To disapprove of (something or someone, often a behavior); to express disapproval of (something or someone)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "frown on"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "frowns on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frowning on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frowned on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frowned on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frown upon",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "frown on (third-person singular simple present frowns on, present participle frowning on, simple past and past participle frowned on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coach frowns on smoking, even in the off-season.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948 January and February, “British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:",
          "text": "The three \"Greats\" (Great Eastern, Great Central, and Great Northern) were prepared to amalgamate, but Parliament continued to frown on such proposals.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Sally Rooney, “Two Days Later (April 2011)”, in Normal People:",
          "text": "Is it because of her mother? said Lorraine. You think she'd frown on you?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To disapprove of (something or someone, often a behavior); to express disapproval of (something or someone)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "disapprove",
          "disapprove"
        ],
        [
          "express",
          "express"
        ],
        [
          "disapproval",
          "disapproval"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To disapprove of (something or someone, often a behavior); to express disapproval of (something or someone)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "frown on"
}