"Dee Why" meaning in All languages combined

See Dee Why on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Etymology: From the letters "DY" written on an early map in the location of the present suburb. The original meaning and reason of the letters is unknown. Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Dee Why
  1. A suburb of Sydney in Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia. Categories (place): Places in Australia, Places in New South Wales, Places in Sydney, Suburbs in New South Wales Related terms: Brookvale, Northern Beaches, Warringah Translations (suburb of Sydney): 德威 (Chinese Mandarin), दी ह्वाइ (dī hwāi) (Nepali), डी ह्वाइ (ḍī hwāi) (Nepali)
    Sense id: en-Dee_Why-en-name-0igZMoa1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for Dee Why meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "From the letters \"DY\" written on an early map in the location of the present suburb. The original meaning and reason of the letters is unknown.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Dee Why",
      "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": "Places in Australia",
          "orig": "en:Places in Australia",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in New South Wales",
          "orig": "en:Places in New South Wales",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Sydney",
          "orig": "en:Places in Sydney",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Suburbs in New South Wales",
          "orig": "en:Suburbs in New South Wales",
          "parents": [
            "Suburbs",
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A suburb of Sydney in Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia."
      ],
      "id": "en-Dee_Why-en-name-0igZMoa1",
      "links": [
        [
          "suburb",
          "suburb"
        ],
        [
          "Sydney",
          "Sydney#English"
        ],
        [
          "Northern Beaches",
          "Northern Beaches#English"
        ],
        [
          "New South Wales",
          "New South Wales#English"
        ],
        [
          "Australia",
          "Australia#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Brookvale"
        },
        {
          "word": "Northern Beaches"
        },
        {
          "word": "Warringah"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "suburb of Sydney",
          "word": "德威"
        },
        {
          "code": "ne",
          "lang": "Nepali",
          "roman": "dī hwāi",
          "sense": "suburb of Sydney",
          "word": "दी ह्वाइ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ne",
          "lang": "Nepali",
          "roman": "ḍī hwāi",
          "sense": "suburb of Sydney",
          "word": "डी ह्वाइ"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Dee Why"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From the letters \"DY\" written on an early map in the location of the present suburb. The original meaning and reason of the letters is unknown.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Dee Why",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Brookvale"
    },
    {
      "word": "Northern Beaches"
    },
    {
      "word": "Warringah"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Places in Australia",
        "en:Places in New South Wales",
        "en:Places in Sydney",
        "en:Suburbs in New South Wales"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A suburb of Sydney in Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "suburb",
          "suburb"
        ],
        [
          "Sydney",
          "Sydney#English"
        ],
        [
          "Northern Beaches",
          "Northern Beaches#English"
        ],
        [
          "New South Wales",
          "New South Wales#English"
        ],
        [
          "Australia",
          "Australia#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "suburb of Sydney",
      "word": "德威"
    },
    {
      "code": "ne",
      "lang": "Nepali",
      "roman": "dī hwāi",
      "sense": "suburb of Sydney",
      "word": "दी ह्वाइ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ne",
      "lang": "Nepali",
      "roman": "ḍī hwāi",
      "sense": "suburb of Sydney",
      "word": "डी ह्वाइ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Dee Why"
}

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.