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"categories": [
"Old English compound terms",
"Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"Old English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Old English lemmas",
"Old English male given names",
"Old English masculine a-stem nouns",
"Old English masculine nouns",
"Old English poetic terms",
"Old English proper nouns",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Old English terms with unknown etymologies"
],
"glosses": [
"Beowulf"
],
"links": [
[
"poetic",
"poetic"
],
[
"Beowulf",
"Beowulf#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(poetic) Beowulf"
],
"tags": [
"poetic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbe͜oːˌwulf/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈbe͜oːˌwuɫf]"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Bīowulf"
}
],
"word": "Beowulf"
}
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