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"roman": "miwakutekina josei",
"sense": "beautiful, charming and irresistible woman",
"word": "魅惑的な女性"
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"roman": "obvorožítelʹnica",
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"text": "His desire for that enchantress led him to financial ruin!"
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"sense": "attractive woman skilled at using magic",
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"word": "incantatrice"
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"roman": "miwakutekina josei",
"sense": "beautiful, charming and irresistible woman",
"word": "魅惑的な女性"
},
{
"alt": "みわくてきなおんな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "miwakutekina onna",
"sense": "beautiful, charming and irresistible woman",
"word": "魅惑的な女"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čarovníca",
"sense": "beautiful, charming and irresistible woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "чаровни́ца"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obvorožítelʹnica",
"sense": "beautiful, charming and irresistible woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "обворожи́тельница"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "očarovátelʹnaja žénščina",
"sense": "beautiful, charming and irresistible woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "очарова́тельная же́нщина"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obvorožítelʹnaja žénščina",
"sense": "beautiful, charming and irresistible woman",
"word": "обворожи́тельная же́нщина"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "čarivnýcja",
"sense": "beautiful, charming and irresistible woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "чарівни́ця"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "femme fatale",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "tjuserska"
}
],
"word": "enchantress"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 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.
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