See Big Apple on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for Big Apple meaning in All languages combined (6.5kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York."
},
"expansion": "The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York.",
"name": "blockquote"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Popularized by John J. Fitz Gerald in horse-racing articles in the 1920s - an apple being a treat for a horse, and New York being a prize location for horse-racing at the time. From usage among African American stable hands. See the Wikipedia article.\nThe Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "the Big Apple",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"def": "1",
"head": "Big Apple"
},
"expansion": "the Big Apple",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "City nicknames",
"orig": "en:City nicknames",
"parents": [
"Cities",
"Nicknames",
"Polities",
"Names",
"Places",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "New York City",
"orig": "en:New York City",
"parents": [
"New York, USA",
"United States",
"North America",
"America",
"Earth",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1976, “Song for Sharon”, in Hejira, performed by Joni Mitchell",
"text": "Sharon, I left my man\nAt a North Dakota junction\nAnd I came out to the Big Apple here\nTo face the dream's malfunction",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A nickname for New York City."
],
"id": "en-Big_Apple-en-name-ZfMl~j3C",
"links": [
[
"nickname",
"nickname#English"
],
[
"New York City",
"New York City#English"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "Big Peach"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "Mec xnjor",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Մեծ խնձոր"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Sagar Handia"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gran Poma"
},
{
"code": "co",
"lang": "Corsican",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grande Mela"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Granda Pomo"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Suur Õun"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Nykki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Iso Omena"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grosse Pomme"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Big Apple"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gran Mazá"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "didi vašli",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "დიდი ვაშლი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Big Apple"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "Megálo Mílo",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Μεγάλο Μήλο"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Nagy Alma"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grande Mela"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Biggu Appuru",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "ビッグ・アップル"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Bik Aepeul",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "빅 애플"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "Tom Alim",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Том Алим"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Wielkie Jabłko"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grande Maçã"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Bolʹšóje jábloko",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Большо́е я́блоко"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "Велика Ја̏бука"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "Velika Jȁbuka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gran Manzana"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Big Apple#Etymology",
"John J. Fitz Gerald"
]
}
],
"word": "Big Apple"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "en",
"3": "Big Apple",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "English Big Apple",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "en",
"3": "Big Apple"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from English Big Apple",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from English Big Apple.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"nolinkhead": "1"
},
"expansion": "Big Apple f",
"name": "fr-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "fr",
"name": "New York, USA",
"orig": "fr:New York, USA",
"parents": [
"United States",
"North America",
"America",
"Earth",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Big Apple (nickname for New York City)"
],
"id": "en-Big_Apple-fr-name-m2iCRJOr",
"links": [
[
"Big Apple",
"Big Apple#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Grosse Pomme"
}
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bi.ɡ‿a.pœl/"
}
],
"word": "Big Apple"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York."
},
"expansion": "The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York.",
"name": "blockquote"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Popularized by John J. Fitz Gerald in horse-racing articles in the 1920s - an apple being a treat for a horse, and New York being a prize location for horse-racing at the time. From usage among African American stable hands. See the Wikipedia article.\nThe Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "the Big Apple",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"def": "1",
"head": "Big Apple"
},
"expansion": "the Big Apple",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"related": [
{
"word": "Big Peach"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Requests for review of Mandarin translations",
"en:City nicknames",
"en:New York City"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1976, “Song for Sharon”, in Hejira, performed by Joni Mitchell",
"text": "Sharon, I left my man\nAt a North Dakota junction\nAnd I came out to the Big Apple here\nTo face the dream's malfunction",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A nickname for New York City."
],
"links": [
[
"nickname",
"nickname#English"
],
[
"New York City",
"New York City#English"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"Big Apple#Etymology",
"John J. Fitz Gerald"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "Mec xnjor",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Մեծ խնձոր"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Sagar Handia"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gran Poma"
},
{
"code": "co",
"lang": "Corsican",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grande Mela"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Granda Pomo"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Suur Õun"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Nykki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Iso Omena"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grosse Pomme"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Big Apple"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gran Mazá"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "didi vašli",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "დიდი ვაშლი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Big Apple"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "Megálo Mílo",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Μεγάλο Μήλο"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Nagy Alma"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grande Mela"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Biggu Appuru",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "ビッグ・アップル"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Bik Aepeul",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "빅 애플"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "Tom Alim",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"word": "Том Алим"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Wielkie Jabłko"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grande Maçã"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Bolʹšóje jábloko",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Большо́е я́блоко"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "Велика Ја̏бука"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "Velika Jȁbuka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "nickname for New York City",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gran Manzana"
}
],
"word": "Big Apple"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "en",
"3": "Big Apple",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "English Big Apple",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "en",
"3": "Big Apple"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from English Big Apple",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from English Big Apple.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"nolinkhead": "1"
},
"expansion": "Big Apple f",
"name": "fr-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French multiword terms",
"French proper nouns",
"French terms borrowed from English",
"French terms derived from English",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"fr:New York, USA"
],
"glosses": [
"Big Apple (nickname for New York City)"
],
"links": [
[
"Big Apple",
"Big Apple#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Grosse Pomme"
}
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bi.ɡ‿a.pœl/"
}
],
"word": "Big Apple"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). 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.