See slew on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Irish slua (“crowd”) and Scottish Gaelic sluagh (“crowd”), from Old Irish slúag, slóg, from Proto-Celtic *slougos (“troop, army”), from Proto-Indo-European *slowgʰos, *slowgos (“entourage”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "slews",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "slew (plural slews)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "onslaught"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She has a slew of papers and notebooks strewn all over her desk.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2021 February 24, Philip Haigh, “A shift from cars: Scotland's railways are friends of electric!”, in RAIL, number 915, page 30:",
"text": "There has been a slew of documents about Scottish transport planning in recent weeks.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large amount."
],
"links": [
[
"amount",
"amount"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A crowd or large number of people."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sl(j)uː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/slɪu̯/",
"note": "Wales, Northern England, some New England, Southern American, and Canadian"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-slew.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b9/En-au-slew.ogg/En-au-slew.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/En-au-slew.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uː"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "munt"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tou"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a large amount",
"word": "een groot aantal"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Menge"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Reihe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ganze Reihe"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "amontoado"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a large amount",
"word": "montão"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mássa",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ма́сса"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "montón"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "massa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a large amount",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mängd"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "a large amount",
"word": "đống"
}
],
"word": "slew"
}
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