"donnish" meaning in All languages combined

See donnish on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more donnish [comparative], most donnish [superlative]
Etymology: don + -ish Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|don|ish|id1=professor}} don + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} donnish (comparative more donnish, superlative most donnish)
  1. Characteristic of a (university) don.
    Sense id: en-donnish-en-adj-f2pRZKUR
  2. (of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical. Translations (bookish): сух (suh) (Bulgarian), педантичен (pedantičen) (Bulgarian)
    Sense id: en-donnish-en-adj-PWJU1iPM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 88 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ish: 19 81 Disambiguation of 'bookish': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: donnishness

Download JSON data for donnish meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "donnishness"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "don",
        "3": "ish",
        "id1": "professor"
      },
      "expansion": "don + -ish",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "don + -ish",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more donnish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most donnish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "donnish (comparative more donnish, superlative most donnish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Characteristic of a (university) don."
      ],
      "id": "en-donnish-en-adj-f2pRZKUR",
      "links": [
        [
          "don",
          "don"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The new engineer had a donnish air, and found it difficult to communicate with the workers in the factory.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical."
      ],
      "id": "en-donnish-en-adj-PWJU1iPM",
      "links": [
        [
          "Bookish",
          "bookish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "suh",
          "sense": "bookish",
          "word": "сух"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "pedantičen",
          "sense": "bookish",
          "word": "педантичен"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "donnish"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ish"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "donnishness"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "don",
        "3": "ish",
        "id1": "professor"
      },
      "expansion": "don + -ish",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "don + -ish",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more donnish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most donnish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "donnish (comparative more donnish, superlative most donnish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Characteristic of a (university) don."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "don",
          "don"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The new engineer had a donnish air, and found it difficult to communicate with the workers in the factory.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Bookish",
          "bookish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "suh",
      "sense": "bookish",
      "word": "сух"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pedantičen",
      "sense": "bookish",
      "word": "педантичен"
    }
  ],
  "word": "donnish"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.