See Homer nods on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "See even Homer nods.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "phrase"
},
"expansion": "Homer nods",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"Ho‧mer"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "not even the most vigilant and expert are immune to error",
"word": "even Homer nods"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Greece",
"orig": "en:Greece",
"parents": [
"Europe",
"Earth",
"Eurasia",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1677, John Dryden, “The Authors Apology for Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence”, in The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. Written in Heroique Verse, and Dedicated to Her Royal Highness, the Duchess, London: Printed by T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, →OCLC:",
"text": "Horace acknowledges that honeſt Homer''' nods ſometimes: He is not equally awake in every Line: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1709, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, London: Printed for W. Lewis in Russell-street, Covent-Garden; and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, T. Osborn in Grays-Inn near the Walks, and J. Graves in St. James's-Street, published 1711, →OCLC, page 12:",
"text": "Thoſe are but Stratagems which Errors ſeem, / Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1713, [Jean] de la Bruyere, N[icholas] Rowe, “Of M. de la Bruyere’s Book, entitul’d, The Characters: Or the Manners of the Present Age”, in The Works of Monsieur De La Bruyere. In Two Volumes. Containing, I. The Moral Characters of Theophrastus. II. The Characters, or, The Manners of the Present Age. III. M. Bruyeres Speech upon His Admission into the French Academy. IV. An Account of the Life and Writings of M. Bruyere. By Monsieur Coste. … Revis’d by the Paris Edition: With an Original Chapter, Of the Manner of Living with Great Men: Written after the Method of M. Bruyere, by N. Rowe, Esq., 6th edition, volume I, London: Printed for E[dmund] Curll, at the Dial and Bible, and J. Pemberton, at the Buck and Sun; both against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, →OCLC, page 102:",
"text": "He [de Vigneul-Marvin] knows that Homer''' nods sometimes, and that Faults are found in the beſt writers. He is an Author himself, and conſequently may commit an Over-ſight as well as Pindar, Virgil, Horace, and all the moſt celebrated Ancient and Modern Authors.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009 April 27, James Taranto, “When Pigs Flu: But … but … Mexico has Socialized Medicine!”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 2016-03-22:",
"text": "And Homer nods: The Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles played in this year's NFC championship, not NFL championship as we said in a Friday follow-up (since corrected).",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of even Homer nods (“not even the most vigilant and expert are immune to error”)."
],
"id": "en-Homer_nods-en-phrase-YhXhD0~Q",
"links": [
[
"even Homer nods",
"even Homer nods#English"
],
[
"vigilant",
"vigilant"
],
[
"expert",
"expert#Adjective"
],
[
"immune",
"immune"
],
[
"error",
"error"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhəʊmə ˈnɒdz/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Homer nods.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/99/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Homer_nods.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Homer_nods.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/99/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Homer_nods.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Homer_nods.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhoʊməɹ ˈnɑdz/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "Homer nods"
}
{
"etymology_text": "See even Homer nods.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "phrase"
},
"expansion": "Homer nods",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"Ho‧mer"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "not even the most vigilant and expert are immune to error",
"word": "even Homer nods"
}
],
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrases",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Greece"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1677, John Dryden, “The Authors Apology for Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence”, in The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. Written in Heroique Verse, and Dedicated to Her Royal Highness, the Duchess, London: Printed by T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, →OCLC:",
"text": "Horace acknowledges that honeſt Homer''' nods ſometimes: He is not equally awake in every Line: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1709, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, London: Printed for W. Lewis in Russell-street, Covent-Garden; and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, T. Osborn in Grays-Inn near the Walks, and J. Graves in St. James's-Street, published 1711, →OCLC, page 12:",
"text": "Thoſe are but Stratagems which Errors ſeem, / Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1713, [Jean] de la Bruyere, N[icholas] Rowe, “Of M. de la Bruyere’s Book, entitul’d, The Characters: Or the Manners of the Present Age”, in The Works of Monsieur De La Bruyere. In Two Volumes. Containing, I. The Moral Characters of Theophrastus. II. The Characters, or, The Manners of the Present Age. III. M. Bruyeres Speech upon His Admission into the French Academy. IV. An Account of the Life and Writings of M. Bruyere. By Monsieur Coste. … Revis’d by the Paris Edition: With an Original Chapter, Of the Manner of Living with Great Men: Written after the Method of M. Bruyere, by N. Rowe, Esq., 6th edition, volume I, London: Printed for E[dmund] Curll, at the Dial and Bible, and J. Pemberton, at the Buck and Sun; both against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, →OCLC, page 102:",
"text": "He [de Vigneul-Marvin] knows that Homer''' nods sometimes, and that Faults are found in the beſt writers. He is an Author himself, and conſequently may commit an Over-ſight as well as Pindar, Virgil, Horace, and all the moſt celebrated Ancient and Modern Authors.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009 April 27, James Taranto, “When Pigs Flu: But … but … Mexico has Socialized Medicine!”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 2016-03-22:",
"text": "And Homer nods: The Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles played in this year's NFC championship, not NFL championship as we said in a Friday follow-up (since corrected).",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of even Homer nods (“not even the most vigilant and expert are immune to error”)."
],
"links": [
[
"even Homer nods",
"even Homer nods#English"
],
[
"vigilant",
"vigilant"
],
[
"expert",
"expert#Adjective"
],
[
"immune",
"immune"
],
[
"error",
"error"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhəʊmə ˈnɒdz/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Homer nods.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/99/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Homer_nods.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Homer_nods.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/99/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Homer_nods.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Homer_nods.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhoʊməɹ ˈnɑdz/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "Homer nods"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Homer nods meaning in All languages combined (3.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). 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.