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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "ticket office",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "taquilla"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "ticket office",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "biljettkassa"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "ticket office",
"word": "takilya"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ticket office",
"word": "gişe"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Elizabethan theatre",
"box office"
],
"word": "box office"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.
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