"town twinning" meaning in All languages combined

See town twinning on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: town twinnings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} town twinning (countable and uncountable, plural town twinnings)
  1. The pairing of towns or cities from geographically distinct areas, in order to foster human contact and cultural links. Wikipedia link: town twinning Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (pairing of towns or cities): توأمَة مدن (Arabic), побратимен град (english: pobratimen grad) (Bulgarian), agermanament (Catalan), partnerstad (Dutch), ĝemeliĝo (Esperanto), jumelage [masculine] (French), Städtepartnerschaft (German), ערים תאומות (Hebrew), testvérváros (Hungarian), gemellaggio [masculine] (Italian), 姉妹都市 (shimai toshi) (Japanese), coniunctio communium (Latin), 友好城市 (yǒuhǎo chéngshì) (Mandarin), miasta partnerskie (Polish), geminação [feminine] (Portuguese), породнённые города́ (porodnjónnyje gorodá) (Russian), города́-побрати́мы (gorodá-pobratímy) (Russian), vänort (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-town_twinning-en-noun-e4BVCY2T Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant script codes

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for town twinning meaning in All languages combined (3.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "town twinnings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "town twinning (countable and uncountable, plural town twinnings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The pairing of towns or cities from geographically distinct areas, in order to foster human contact and cultural links."
      ],
      "id": "en-town_twinning-en-noun-e4BVCY2T",
      "links": [
        [
          "pairing",
          "pairing"
        ],
        [
          "cities",
          "cities"
        ],
        [
          "geographically",
          "geographically"
        ],
        [
          "distinct",
          "distinct"
        ],
        [
          "foster",
          "foster"
        ],
        [
          "human",
          "human"
        ],
        [
          "contact",
          "contact"
        ],
        [
          "cultural",
          "cultural"
        ],
        [
          "link",
          "link"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "توأمَة مدن"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "english": "pobratimen grad",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "побратимен град"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "agermanament"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "partnerstad"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "ĝemeliĝo"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "jumelage"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "Städtepartnerschaft"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "ערים תאומות"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "testvérváros"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gemellaggio"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shimai toshi",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "姉妹都市"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "coniunctio communium"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Mandarin",
          "roman": "yǒuhǎo chéngshì",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "友好城市"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "miasta partnerskie"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "geminação"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "porodnjónnyje gorodá",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "породнённые города́"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "gorodá-pobratímy",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "города́-побрати́мы"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
          "word": "vänort"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "town twinning"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "town twinning"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "town twinnings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "town twinning (countable and uncountable, plural town twinnings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant script codes"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The pairing of towns or cities from geographically distinct areas, in order to foster human contact and cultural links."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pairing",
          "pairing"
        ],
        [
          "cities",
          "cities"
        ],
        [
          "geographically",
          "geographically"
        ],
        [
          "distinct",
          "distinct"
        ],
        [
          "foster",
          "foster"
        ],
        [
          "human",
          "human"
        ],
        [
          "contact",
          "contact"
        ],
        [
          "cultural",
          "cultural"
        ],
        [
          "link",
          "link"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "town twinning"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "توأمَة مدن"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "english": "pobratimen grad",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "побратимен град"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "agermanament"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "partnerstad"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "ĝemeliĝo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jumelage"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "Städtepartnerschaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "ערים תאומות"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "testvérváros"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gemellaggio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shimai toshi",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "姉妹都市"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "coniunctio communium"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǒuhǎo chéngshì",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "友好城市"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "miasta partnerskie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "geminação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "porodnjónnyje gorodá",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "породнённые города́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gorodá-pobratímy",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "города́-побрати́мы"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pairing of towns or cities",
      "word": "vänort"
    }
  ],
  "word": "town twinning"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.