See dunce on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for dunce meaning in All languages combined (5.4kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "|",
"name": "!"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "John Duns Scotus"
},
"expansion": "John Duns Scotus",
"name": "lang"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "John Duns Scotus",
"born": "c. 1266",
"died": "1308",
"nocap": "1",
"wplink": "Duns Scotus"
},
"expansion": "named after John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308)",
"name": "named-after"
}
],
"etymology_text": "1530, named after John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308). Scotus was ironically a well-known Scottish thinker; his followers, however, opposed the philosophers of the Renaissance, and thus \"dunce\" was first used to describe someone rejecting new knowledge in 1530; later, any stupid person.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dunces",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dunce (plural dunces)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "dunce cap"
},
{
"word": "duncedom"
},
{
"word": "dunce hat"
},
{
"word": "duncehood"
},
{
"word": "duncelike"
},
{
"word": "duncely"
},
{
"word": "duncish"
},
{
"word": "dunceish"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, “Thoughts on Various Subjects”, in The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, volume 5",
"text": "When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXX",
"text": "[...] Dunce, / Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, / After a life spent training for the sight!",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An unintelligent person."
],
"id": "en-dunce-en-noun-8G8SuwUg",
"links": [
[
"unintelligent",
"unintelligent"
],
[
"person",
"person"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "idiot"
},
{
"word": "idiot"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "jólup",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ёлуп"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "jólupjenʹ",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ёлупень"
},
{
"code": "crh",
"lang": "Crimean Tatar",
"word": "cail"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"word": "malklerulo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"word": "aasi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"word": "typerys"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"word": "tyhmä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "cancre"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "túzaro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bestello"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trepeiro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tarulo"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tamarugo"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rude"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dummkopf"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schwachkopf"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dämel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Einfaltspinsel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dummerjan"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tossi"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "barcala"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bārō"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "dunster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дунстер"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "duduk",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дудук"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dommajon"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nieuk"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antytalent"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "néuč",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "не́уч"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "idiót",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "идио́т"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "baldá",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "балда́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ostolóp",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "остоло́п"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tupíca",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "тупи́ца"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tonto de capirote"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dumhuvud"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "dummerjöns"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dỳns"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "twpsyn"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "penbwl"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dʌns/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌns"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dunce.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dunce.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dunce.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dunce.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dunce.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "dunce"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "dunce cap"
},
{
"word": "duncedom"
},
{
"word": "dunce hat"
},
{
"word": "duncehood"
},
{
"word": "duncelike"
},
{
"word": "duncely"
},
{
"word": "duncish"
},
{
"word": "dunceish"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "|",
"name": "!"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "John Duns Scotus"
},
"expansion": "John Duns Scotus",
"name": "lang"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "John Duns Scotus",
"born": "c. 1266",
"died": "1308",
"nocap": "1",
"wplink": "Duns Scotus"
},
"expansion": "named after John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308)",
"name": "named-after"
}
],
"etymology_text": "1530, named after John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308). Scotus was ironically a well-known Scottish thinker; his followers, however, opposed the philosophers of the Renaissance, and thus \"dunce\" was first used to describe someone rejecting new knowledge in 1530; later, any stupid person.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dunces",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dunce (plural dunces)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Rhymes:English/ʌns",
"Rhymes:English/ʌns/1 syllable"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, “Thoughts on Various Subjects”, in The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, volume 5",
"text": "When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXX",
"text": "[...] Dunce, / Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, / After a life spent training for the sight!",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An unintelligent person."
],
"links": [
[
"unintelligent",
"unintelligent"
],
[
"person",
"person"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "idiot"
},
{
"word": "idiot"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dʌns/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌns"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dunce.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dunce.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dunce.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dunce.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-dunce.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "jólup",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ёлуп"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "jólupjenʹ",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ёлупень"
},
{
"code": "crh",
"lang": "Crimean Tatar",
"word": "cail"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"word": "malklerulo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"word": "aasi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"word": "typerys"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"word": "tyhmä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "cancre"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "túzaro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bestello"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trepeiro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tarulo"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tamarugo"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rude"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dummkopf"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schwachkopf"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dämel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Einfaltspinsel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dummerjan"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tossi"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "barcala"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bārō"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "dunster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дунстер"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "duduk",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дудук"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dommajon"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nieuk"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antytalent"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "néuč",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "не́уч"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "idiót",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "идио́т"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "baldá",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "балда́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ostolóp",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "остоло́п"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tupíca",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "тупи́ца"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tonto de capirote"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dumhuvud"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "dummerjöns"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dỳns"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "twpsyn"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "penbwl"
}
],
"word": "dunce"
}
{
"called_from": "page/2517",
"msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'unintelligent person', 2: 'idiot'}",
"path": [
"dunce",
"trans-top-see"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "dunce",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). 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.