See deus ex machina on Wiktionary
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"glosses": [
"deus ex machina (contrived plot resolution)"
],
"links": [
[
"narratology",
"narratology"
],
[
"deus ex machina",
"deus ex machina#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary, narratology) deus ex machina (contrived plot resolution)"
],
"tags": [
"indeclinable",
"literary",
"masculine",
"person"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"narratology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɛ.us ˈɛks maˈxi.na/"
}
],
"word": "deus ex machina"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "deuses ex machina",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "dei ex machina",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "deuses ex machina",
"pl2": "dei ex machina"
},
"expansion": "deus ex machina m (plural deuses ex machina or dei ex machina)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"word": "deus"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Portuguese countable nouns",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese masculine nouns",
"Portuguese multiword terms",
"Portuguese nouns",
"Portuguese nouns with multiple plurals",
"Portuguese nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"pt:Narratology"
],
"glosses": [
"deus ex machina (contrived plot resolution)"
],
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[
"narratology",
"narratology"
],
[
"deus ex machina",
"deus ex machina#English"
],
[
"contrived",
"contrive#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(narratology) deus ex machina (contrived plot resolution)"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"narratology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "deus ex machina"
}
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