See flying saucer on Wiktionary
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"en:Anti-gravity",
"en:Ufology"
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "alien"
},
{
"word": "ET"
},
{
"word": "extraterrestrial"
},
{
"word": "foo"
},
{
"word": "foo fighter"
},
{
"word": "little green man"
},
{
"word": "Martian"
},
{
"word": "mothership"
},
{
"word": "UFO"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "flying saucer group"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From an interview given by amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold who described seeing nine flying objects that were \"moving like saucers being skimmed across a lake\". The description was not meant to describe the shape of the objects, only how they maneuvered, yet the misinterpretation took hold and gained popularity.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "flying saucers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "flying saucer (plural flying saucers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "flying disc"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some connect the recent spate of flying saucer sightings with a rumored top-secret military aviation project.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1950 December 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 3, column 5:",
"text": "An engram is NOT [...] One of the little green men Americans claim have crashed in flying saucers.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A disc-shaped unidentified flying object or UFO; originally in reference to sightings by aviator Kenneth Arnold in Washington in 1947."
],
"links": [
[
"unidentified flying object",
"unidentified flying object"
],
[
"UFO",
"UFO"
],
[
"sighting",
"sighting"
],
[
"aviator",
"aviator"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) A disc-shaped unidentified flying object or UFO; originally in reference to sightings by aviator Kenneth Arnold in Washington in 1947."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Science fiction"
],
"glosses": [
"An alien interplanetary vessel, typically disc-shaped and of metallic construction."
],
"links": [
[
"science fiction",
"science fiction"
],
[
"interplanetary",
"interplanetary"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(science fiction) An alien interplanetary vessel, typically disc-shaped and of metallic construction."
],
"topics": [
"literature",
"media",
"publishing",
"science-fiction"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A form of confectionery, a small spheroidal capsule of rice paper filled with sherbet."
],
"links": [
[
"confectionery",
"confectionery"
],
[
"spheroidal",
"spheroidal"
],
[
"capsule",
"capsule"
],
[
"rice paper",
"rice paper"
],
[
"sherbet",
"sherbet"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "flying craft",
"word": "saucercraft"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ṭabaq ṭāʔir",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "طَبَق طَائِر"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʻṙčʻoġ apʻse",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "թռչող ափսե"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "uçan dairə"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "letjašta činija",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "летяща чиния"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "platet volador"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "飛碟"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēidié",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "飞碟"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "padellik neyja"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "létající talíř"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "flyvende tallerken"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "vliegende schotel"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "fluganta subtaso"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "lendav taldrik"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "flúgvandi diskur"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "lentävä lautanen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "soucoupe volante"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fliegende Untertasse"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "iptámenos dískos",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ιπτάμενος δίσκος"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "uṛan taśtarī",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "उड़न तश्तरी"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "repülő csészealj"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sásar eitilte"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "disco volante"
},
{
"alt": "そらとぶえんばん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sora tobu enban",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "空飛ぶ円盤"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "ūşatyn tabaq",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "ұшатын табақ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bihaengjeopsi",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "비행접시"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "patella volans"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "letečka činija",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "летечка чинија"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "nisdeg tavag",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "нисдэг таваг"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "souôtâsse volante"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "flygende tallerken"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "bošqâb parande",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "بشقاب پرنده"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "latający spodek"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "disco voador"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "farfurie zburătoare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "letájuščaja tarélka",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лета́ющая таре́лка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "летећи тањир"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "leteći tanjir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "platillo volante"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "platillo volador"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "flygande tefat"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "jaan-bin",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "จานบิน"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "จานผี"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"english": "UFO is also used.",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "uçan daire"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "uṛan tashtarī",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "اڑن طشتری"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "uṛan tashtarī",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "اڑن تشتری"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"word": "đĩa bay"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "disc-shaped unidentified flying object",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "soser hedegog"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:Flying saucer (confectionery)",
"en:flying saucer"
],
"word": "flying saucer"
}
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