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"lang_code": "mul",
"pos": "symbol",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English links with redundant alt parameters",
"ISO 3166-1 alpha-2"
],
"glosses": [
"ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Malawi."
],
"links": [
[
"ISO 3166-1",
"w:ISO 3166-1"
],
[
"alpha-2",
"w:ISO 3166-1 alpha-2"
],
[
"country code",
"country code#English"
],
[
"Malawi",
"Malawi#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "international standards",
"raw_glosses": [
"(international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Malawi."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "MWI"
}
]
}
],
"word": "MW"
}
Download raw JSONL data for MW meaning in All languages combined (7.5kB)
{
"called_from": "linkages/371",
"msg": "unrecognized linkage prefix: (Merriam-Webster): M-W desc=Merriam-Webster rest=M-W cls=romanization cls2=romanization e1=False e2=True",
"path": [
"MW"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "MW",
"trace": ""
}
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