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"text": "The last person who tried this kind of appeal was actually the new vessel -- an Apollonian, one I knew briefly.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A native of the planet Apollo."
],
"links": [
[
"science fiction",
"science fiction"
],
[
"planet",
"planet"
],
[
"Apollo",
"Apollo"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(science fiction) A native of the planet Apollo."
],
"topics": [
"literature",
"media",
"publishing",
"science-fiction"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of or relating to the Greek god Apollo",
"word": "apol·lini"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of or relating to the Greek god Apollo",
"word": "apolloninen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of or relating to the Greek god Apollo",
"word": "apollinien"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of or relating to the Greek god Apollo",
"word": "apollinisch"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apollóneios",
"sense": "of or relating to the Greek god Apollo",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "απολλώνειος"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of or relating to the Greek god Apollo",
"word": "apolíneo"
}
],
"word": "Apollonian"
}
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