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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"code": "pt",
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"word": "кни́ксен"
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"roman": "prisedánije",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"word": "приседа́ние"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"masculine"
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"code": "sk",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"code": "sk",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
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"word": "reverencia"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "nigning"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "knix"
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"text": "The hotel's staff never curtsied, nodded, or bowed to the owner as she passed, as they were staunch egalitarians.",
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"text": "1890, James Russell Lowell, Address in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America\nBut DANTE was a great genius, and language curtseys to its natural Kings."
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"text": "1903, W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk\nHe curtsied low, and then bowed almost to the ground, with an imperturbable gravity that seemed almost suspicious."
},
{
"text": "1908, Caroline Crawford, Folk Dances and Games\nThe gentleman bows and the lady curtesys (measure eight)."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pravja reverans",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "правя реверанс"
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"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "neje"
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"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "nijgen"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to make a curtsey",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "faire la révérence"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "révérencier"
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"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "knicksen"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "pukedlizik"
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"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "hneigja sig í hnjáliðunum"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "fare la riverenza"
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{
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"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "fare l'inchino"
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"code": "no",
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"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "neie"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "dygać"
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"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "cortejar"
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "napraviti kniks"
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"sense": "to make a curtsey",
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"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "niga"
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"code": "cmn",
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"word": "屈膝禮"
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "riverenza"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "ja",
"english": "bow",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "おじぎ"
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cortesia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "reverência"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "reverență"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "reveráns",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ревера́нс"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kníksɛn",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кни́ксен"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prisedánije",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "приседа́ние"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "кникс"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kniks"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pukrlík"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "úklon"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "reverencia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "nigning"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "knix"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "reverans"
}
],
"word": "curtsey"
}
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"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs"
],
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{
"args": {
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"2": "courtesy"
},
"expansion": "courtesy",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Shortened from courtesy, 16th c.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "curtseys",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "curtsies",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "curtseying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "curtseyed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "curtseyed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {
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},
"expansion": "curtsey (third-person singular simple present curtseys or curtsies, present participle curtseying, simple past and past participle curtseyed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"word": "congee"
},
{
"word": "congé"
},
{
"word": "conge"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"curt‧sey"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "Not to be confused with courtsey"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The hotel's staff never curtsied, nodded, or bowed to the owner as she passed, as they were staunch egalitarians.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "1890, James Russell Lowell, Address in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America\nBut DANTE was a great genius, and language curtseys to its natural Kings."
},
{
"text": "1903, W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk\nHe curtsied low, and then bowed almost to the ground, with an imperturbable gravity that seemed almost suspicious."
},
{
"text": "1908, Caroline Crawford, Folk Dances and Games\nThe gentleman bows and the lady curtesys (measure eight)."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make a curtsey."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɝtsɪ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɜːtsɪ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-curtsey.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-curtsey.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-curtsey.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-curtsey.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "courtesy"
},
{
"word": "curtsy"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pravja reverans",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "правя реверанс"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "neje"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "nijgen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "niiata"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "faire la révérence"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "révérencier"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "knicksen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "pukedlizik"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "hneigja sig í hnjáliðunum"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "fare la riverenza"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "fare l'inchino"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "neie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "dygać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "cortejar"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "napraviti kniks"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "inclinarse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "hacer una reverencia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "niga"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "reverans yapmak"
}
],
"word": "curtsey"
}
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