"Ringer" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈɹɪŋə(ɹ)/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Ryngere, from ryngere (“bell-ringer”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|en|enm|Ryngere|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle English Ryngere, {{inh+|en|enm|Ryngere}} Inherited from Middle English Ryngere, {{m|enm|ryngere|t=bell-ringer}} ryngere (“bell-ringer”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Ringer
  1. A surname. Derived forms: Ringer's lactate solution
    Sense id: en-Ringer-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɹɪŋə(ɹ)/ Forms: Ringers [plural]
Etymology: ring + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|ring|er}} ring + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} Ringer (plural Ringers)
  1. (fandom slang) A fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Fans (people), J. R. R. Tolkien, People Synonyms: Ringnut Hypernyms: Tolkiendil, Tolkienian, Tolkienist, Tolkienite
    Sense id: en-Ringer-en-noun-3laAx9TD Disambiguation of Fans (people): 20 80 Disambiguation of J. R. R. Tolkien: 8 92 Disambiguation of People: 28 72 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 67 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 84 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 32 68 Topics: lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun [German]

Audio: De-Ringer.ogg , De-Ringer2.ogg
Etymology: ringen + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|de|ringen|er}} ringen + -er Head templates: {{de-noun|m|f=in}} Ringer m (strong, genitive Ringers, plural Ringer, feminine Ringerin) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m}} Forms: Ringers [genitive], Ringer [plural], Ringerin [feminine], strong [table-tags], Ringer [nominative, singular], Ringer [definite, nominative, plural], Ringers [genitive, singular], Ringer [definite, genitive, plural], Ringer [dative, singular], Ringern [dative, definite, plural], Ringer [accusative, singular], Ringer [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. (Greco-Roman) wrestler Tags: Greco-Roman, masculine, strong Categories (topical): Sports Related terms: Ringen [neuter], Ringkampf [masculine], Ringkämpfer [masculine]
    Sense id: en-Ringer-de-noun-MHMCxKTk Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, German terms suffixed with -er

Inflected forms

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      "word": "Ringkampf"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ringkämpfer"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "German entries with incorrect language header",
        "German lemmas",
        "German masculine nouns",
        "German nouns",
        "German terms suffixed with -er",
        "German terms with audio links",
        "de:Sports"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wrestler"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wrestler",
          "wrestler"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Greco-Roman) wrestler"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Greco-Roman",
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "De-Ringer.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/De-Ringer.ogg/De-Ringer.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/De-Ringer.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Ringer2.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/26/De-Ringer2.ogg/De-Ringer2.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/De-Ringer2.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Ringer"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.