"countercause" meaning in All languages combined

See countercause on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: countercauses [plural]
Etymology: From counter- + cause. Etymology templates: {{pre|en|counter|cause}} counter- + cause Head templates: {{en-noun}} countercause (plural countercauses)
  1. A cause that opposes or counteracts another cause.
    Sense id: en-countercause-en-noun-BaA5mLpw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with counter-, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "counter",
        "3": "cause"
      },
      "expansion": "counter- + cause",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From counter- + cause.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "countercauses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "countercause (plural countercauses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with counter-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Lynn S. Chancer, High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes, page 170:",
          "text": "Thus Edi Faal in the “Reginald Denny” case, and Johnnie Cochran in the “O.J. Simpson” case, developed countercauses that put the state itself on the defensive.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cause that opposes or counteracts another cause."
      ],
      "id": "en-countercause-en-noun-BaA5mLpw"
    }
  ],
  "word": "countercause"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "counter",
        "3": "cause"
      },
      "expansion": "counter- + cause",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From counter- + cause.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "countercauses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "countercause (plural countercauses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with counter-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Lynn S. Chancer, High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes, page 170:",
          "text": "Thus Edi Faal in the “Reginald Denny” case, and Johnnie Cochran in the “O.J. Simpson” case, developed countercauses that put the state itself on the defensive.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cause that opposes or counteracts another cause."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "countercause"
}

Download raw JSONL data for countercause meaning in All languages combined (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). 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.