"smoke-detector" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: smoke-detectors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} smoke-detector (plural smoke-detectors)
  1. Alternative form of smoke detector. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: smoke detector
    Sense id: en-smoke-detector-en-noun-U58EYQzk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1987, Fleur Adcock, “Wildlife”, in Gillian Clarke, editor, The Poetry Book Society Anthology 1987/88, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN:",
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