"from A to Zed" meaning in All languages combined

See from A to Zed on Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=from A to Zed}} from A to Zed, {{en-PP|head=from A to Zed}} from A to Zed
  1. British form of from A to Z. Tags: British, alt-of Alternative form of: from A to Z
    Sense id: en-from_A_to_Zed-en-prep_phrase-WWlwg2D- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for from A to Zed meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": "from A to Zed"
      },
      "expansion": "from A to Zed",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "from A to Zed"
      },
      "expansion": "from A to Zed",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "from A to Z"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, The Writer’s Monthly, page 433",
          "text": "As to plots, “there are only about a score in the world, and when you have used them all from A to Zed you can turn around and use them from Zed to A.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Cole Porter, 103 Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York, N.Y.: Random House, pages 21–22",
          "text": "Oh, I hate men. From all I’ve read, / Alone in bed, / From A to Zed / About ’em, / Since love is blind, / Then from the blind / All womankind / Should rout ’em, / But ladies, you / Must answer, too . . . / “What would we do / Without ’em?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Frederic F[ranklyn] Van de Water, Wings of the Morning, New York, N.Y.: Ives Washburn, Inc., page 88",
          "text": "I’ve learned from A to Zed about Dummerston.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Joseph Natoli, “Reality as Pulp Fiction”, in Speeding to the Millennium: Film & Culture 1993–1995, State University of New York Press, page 37",
          "text": "And interrelationships are what we get in Pulp Fiction, fictions from A to Zed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "British form of from A to Z."
      ],
      "id": "en-from_A_to_Zed-en-prep_phrase-WWlwg2D-",
      "links": [
        [
          "from A to Z",
          "from A to Z#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "from A to Zed"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": "from A to Zed"
      },
      "expansion": "from A to Zed",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "from A to Zed"
      },
      "expansion": "from A to Zed",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "from A to Z"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "British English forms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English prepositional phrases",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, The Writer’s Monthly, page 433",
          "text": "As to plots, “there are only about a score in the world, and when you have used them all from A to Zed you can turn around and use them from Zed to A.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Cole Porter, 103 Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York, N.Y.: Random House, pages 21–22",
          "text": "Oh, I hate men. From all I’ve read, / Alone in bed, / From A to Zed / About ’em, / Since love is blind, / Then from the blind / All womankind / Should rout ’em, / But ladies, you / Must answer, too . . . / “What would we do / Without ’em?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Frederic F[ranklyn] Van de Water, Wings of the Morning, New York, N.Y.: Ives Washburn, Inc., page 88",
          "text": "I’ve learned from A to Zed about Dummerston.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Joseph Natoli, “Reality as Pulp Fiction”, in Speeding to the Millennium: Film & Culture 1993–1995, State University of New York Press, page 37",
          "text": "And interrelationships are what we get in Pulp Fiction, fictions from A to Zed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "British form of from A to Z."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "from A to Z",
          "from A to Z#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "from A to Zed"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). 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.