See cul-de-sac on Wiktionary
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"Spanish nouns",
"Spanish terms borrowed from French",
"Spanish terms derived from French",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "fr",
"3": "cul-de-sac"
},
"expansion": "French cul-de-sac",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From French cul-de-sac, from cul (“bottom”) + de (“of”) + sac (“bag, sack”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cul-de-sacs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "cul-de-sac m (plural cul-de-sacs)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"cul-de-sac"
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"cul-de-sac; blind alley (street that leads nowhere)"
],
"links": [
[
"cul-de-sac",
"cul-de-sac#English"
],
[
"blind alley",
"blind alley"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"cul-de-sac (circular area at the end of a dead end street)"
],
"links": [
[
"cul-de-sac",
"cul-de-sac#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"cul-de-sac; dead end; impasse"
],
"links": [
[
"cul-de-sac",
"cul-de-sac#English"
],
[
"dead end",
"dead end"
],
[
"impasse",
"impasse"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) cul-de-sac; dead end; impasse"
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌkul ˌde ˈsak/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˌkul̪ ˌd̪e ˈsak]"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "culdesac"
},
{
"word": "cul de sac"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Royal Spanish Academy"
],
"word": "cul-de-sac"
}
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