"deaconess-house" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deaconess-houses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "deaconess-house (plural deaconess-houses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Emmy Arnold, A Joyful Pilgrimage, Plough Publishing, published 1999, page 8",
          "text": "At the age of twenty (in June 1905), I began working as a probationer nurse at the Halle Deaconess House, as I had now reached the required age.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Marianne Tallberg, “Nursing and Medical Care in Finland”, in Nursing History Review, University of Pennsylvania, page 175",
          "text": "Some years later, the famine of 1867 gave a flying start to the deaconess-house in Helsinki. Aurora Karamsin was to fulfill two goals, one was to meet the need for care for the poor and sick, the other was to provide women, including those from the educated classes, with an opportunity for “self-sacrificing work in the service of humanity”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1889, Jane Marie Bancroft, Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America, Cranston & Stowe, published 1889, page 86",
          "text": "The first of the Conferences was held in 1861, just twenty-five years after the founding of the first deaconess house at Kaiserwerth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A house inhabited or operated by deaconesses, providing basic medical attention, care for the poor and sick etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-deaconess-house-en-noun-Yr4ptr-2",
      "links": [
        [
          "deaconesses",
          "deaconesses"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly historical) A house inhabited or operated by deaconesses, providing basic medical attention, care for the poor and sick etc."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "deaconess house"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "house inhabited by deaconesses",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "diaconessenhuis"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deaconess-house"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deaconess-houses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "deaconess-house (plural deaconess-houses)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Emmy Arnold, A Joyful Pilgrimage, Plough Publishing, published 1999, page 8",
          "text": "At the age of twenty (in June 1905), I began working as a probationer nurse at the Halle Deaconess House, as I had now reached the required age.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Marianne Tallberg, “Nursing and Medical Care in Finland”, in Nursing History Review, University of Pennsylvania, page 175",
          "text": "Some years later, the famine of 1867 gave a flying start to the deaconess-house in Helsinki. Aurora Karamsin was to fulfill two goals, one was to meet the need for care for the poor and sick, the other was to provide women, including those from the educated classes, with an opportunity for “self-sacrificing work in the service of humanity”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1889, Jane Marie Bancroft, Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America, Cranston & Stowe, published 1889, page 86",
          "text": "The first of the Conferences was held in 1861, just twenty-five years after the founding of the first deaconess house at Kaiserwerth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A house inhabited or operated by deaconesses, providing basic medical attention, care for the poor and sick etc."
      ],
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        [
          "deaconesses",
          "deaconesses"
        ]
      ],
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        "(chiefly historical) A house inhabited or operated by deaconesses, providing basic medical attention, care for the poor and sick etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "deaconess house"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "house inhabited by deaconesses",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "diaconessenhuis"
    }
  ],
  "word": "deaconess-house"
}