"Merseybeat" meaning in All languages combined

See Merseybeat on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: From Mersey + beat. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|Mersey|beat}} Mersey + beat Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Merseybeat (uncountable)
  1. The characteristic style of music produced by pop groups from Merseyside between 1958 and 1964, typified by the Beatles. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: Liverpool sound, Mersey sound
    Sense id: en-Merseybeat-en-noun-WzaxFbLy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Musical genres
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Mersey",
        "3": "beat"
      },
      "expansion": "Mersey + beat",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Mersey + beat.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Merseybeat (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Musical genres",
          "orig": "en:Musical genres",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The characteristic style of music produced by pop groups from Merseyside between 1958 and 1964, typified by the Beatles."
      ],
      "id": "en-Merseybeat-en-noun-WzaxFbLy",
      "links": [
        [
          "pop group",
          "pop group"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Liverpool sound"
        },
        {
          "word": "Mersey sound"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Merseybeat"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Mersey",
        "3": "beat"
      },
      "expansion": "Mersey + beat",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Mersey + beat.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Merseybeat (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from toponyms",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Musical genres"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The characteristic style of music produced by pop groups from Merseyside between 1958 and 1964, typified by the Beatles."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pop group",
          "pop group"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Liverpool sound"
    },
    {
      "word": "Mersey sound"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Merseybeat"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Merseybeat meaning in All languages combined (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (9a214a4 and 1b6da77). 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.