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"Chinese",
"Chinese"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical or archaic, rare in the singular) Synonym of Chinese or Northern Chinese, chiefly in the context of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge of China."
],
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{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "Chinese or Northern Chinese"
},
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "chiefly in the context of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge of China"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"historical",
"rare",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsiɹi.ən/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɪɹi.ən/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪɹiən"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Serean"
}
],
"word": "Serian"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English poetic terms",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -an",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Rhymes:English/ɪɹiən",
"en:China",
"en:Demonyms"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Seri",
"3": "an"
},
"expansion": "Seri + -an",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Seri + -an.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Serian",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with rare senses",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"glosses": [
"A proposed language family including Seri, more often considered an isolate or a member of the Hokan family."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"proposed",
"proposed"
],
[
"language family",
"language family"
],
[
"including",
"including"
],
[
"Seri",
"Seri"
],
[
"more",
"more"
],
[
"often",
"often"
],
[
"consider",
"consider"
],
[
"isolate",
"isolate"
],
[
"member",
"member"
],
[
"Hokan",
"Hokan"
],
[
"family",
"language family"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics, rare) A proposed language family including Seri, more often considered an isolate or a member of the Hokan family."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsiɹi.ən/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɪɹi.ən/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪɹiən"
}
],
"word": "Serian"
}
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