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"tags": [
"Brazil",
"masculine"
],
"word": "heterônimo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "getɛrónim",
"sense": "fictitious character writing in a different style",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "гетеро́ним"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fictitious character writing in a different style",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "хетероним"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "fictitious character writing in a different style",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "heteronim"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fictitious character writing in a different style",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "heterónimo"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"heteronym"
],
"word": "heteronym"
}
{
"called_from": "translations/609-20230504",
"msg": "Translation too long compared to word, so it is skipped",
"path": [
"heteronym"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "heteronym",
"trace": ""
}
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