"fancy dress" meaning in All languages combined

See fancy dress on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: fancy dresses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} fancy dress (usually uncountable, plural fancy dresses)
  1. (UK, Australia) A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else. Tags: Australia, UK, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Clothing Translations (disguise to masquerade): маскараден костюм (maskaraden kostjum) [masculine] (Bulgarian), maškarní kostým [masculine] (Czech), naamiaisasu (Finnish), Karnevalskostüm (english: carnival costume) [neuter] (German), Fueskostüm (english: carnival costume) [masculine] (Luxembourgish)
    Sense id: en-fancy_dress-en-noun-Jyl73DdY Disambiguation of Clothing: 91 9 Categories (other): Australian English, British English Disambiguation of 'disguise to masquerade': 98 2
  2. (uncountable) Formalwear. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-fancy_dress-en-noun-pj9pc5h0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Luxembourgish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 68 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 27 73 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Luxembourgish translations: 32 68

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fancy dresses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "fancy dress (usually uncountable, plural fancy dresses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Clothing",
          "orig": "en:Clothing",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1934, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:",
          "text": "And yet here he was, if one could credit one's senses, about to take part in a fancy-dress ball, a form of entertainment notoriously a testing experience for the toughest. And he was attending that fancy-dress ball, mark you--not, like every other well-bred Englishman, as a Pierrot, but as Mephistopheles--this involving, as I need scarcely stress, not only scarlet tights but a pretty frightful false beard.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:",
          "text": "Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else."
      ],
      "id": "en-fancy_dress-en-noun-Jyl73DdY",
      "links": [
        [
          "costume",
          "costume"
        ],
        [
          "disguise",
          "disguise"
        ],
        [
          "masquerade",
          "masquerade"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Australia) A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "maskaraden kostjum",
          "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "маскараден костюм"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "maškarní kostým"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
          "word": "naamiaisasu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "de",
          "english": "carnival costume",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Karnevalskostüm"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "lb",
          "english": "carnival costume",
          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Fueskostüm"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 73",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 72",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 75",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Czech translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 76",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Luxembourgish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Formalwear."
      ],
      "id": "en-fancy_dress-en-noun-pj9pc5h0",
      "links": [
        [
          "Formalwear",
          "formalwear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Formalwear."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fancy dress"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Luxembourgish translations",
    "en:Clothing"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fancy dresses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "fancy dress (usually uncountable, plural fancy dresses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "British English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1934, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:",
          "text": "And yet here he was, if one could credit one's senses, about to take part in a fancy-dress ball, a form of entertainment notoriously a testing experience for the toughest. And he was attending that fancy-dress ball, mark you--not, like every other well-bred Englishman, as a Pierrot, but as Mephistopheles--this involving, as I need scarcely stress, not only scarlet tights but a pretty frightful false beard.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:",
          "text": "Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "costume",
          "costume"
        ],
        [
          "disguise",
          "disguise"
        ],
        [
          "masquerade",
          "masquerade"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Australia) A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Formalwear."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Formalwear",
          "formalwear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Formalwear."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "maskaraden kostjum",
      "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "маскараден костюм"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "maškarní kostým"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
      "word": "naamiaisasu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "carnival costume",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Karnevalskostüm"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "english": "carnival costume",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "disguise to masquerade",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Fueskostüm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fancy dress"
}

Download raw JSONL data for fancy dress meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.