"down-to-earth" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˌdaʊn.ɾəˈɚθ/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-down-to-earth.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|adjective|head=down-to-earth}} down-to-earth
  1. (idiomatic) Practical; realistic; pragmatic. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Personality Synonyms (realistic): have one's feet on the ground, earth-bound Translations (practical; realistic): практичен (praktičen) (Bulgarian), реалистичен (realističen) (Bulgarian), 腳踏實地 (Chinese Mandarin), 脚踏实地 (jiǎotàshídì) (Chinese Mandarin), 務實 (Chinese Mandarin), 务实 (wùshí) (Chinese Mandarin), 實際 (Chinese Mandarin), 实际 (shíjì) (Chinese Mandarin), maanläheinen (Finnish), terre à terre (French), ამქვეყნიური (amkveq̇niuri) (Georgian), bodenständig (German), földhözragadt (Hungarian), gyakorlatias (Hungarian), profán (Hungarian), prózai (Hungarian), pragmatikus (Hungarian), praktikus (Hungarian), józan (Hungarian), jarðbundinn [masculine] (Icelandic), 地に足のついた (chi ni ashi no tsuita) (Japanese), при́земен (prízemen) (Macedonian), пра́ктичен (práktičen) (Macedonian), реали́стичен (realístičen) (Macedonian), pragmatyczny (Polish), praktyczny (Polish), realistyczny (Polish), prático (Portuguese), pragmático (Portuguese), cu picioarele pe pământ (Romanian), приземлённый (prizemljónnyj) (Russian), практи́чный (praktíčnyj) (Russian), реалисти́чный (realistíčnyj) (Russian), con los pies en la tierra (Spanish), jordnära (Swedish), praktikal (Tagalog), призе́млений (pryzémlenyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-down-to-earth-en-adj-Sx5neLEL Disambiguation of Personality: 97 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of 'realistic': 99 1 Disambiguation of 'practical; realistic': 99 1
  2. (idiomatic) Ordinary; normal; run-of-the-mill. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-down-to-earth-en-adj-sqeSmIGW
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: down to earth

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  "word": "down-to-earth"
}

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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.