See kitsch on Wiktionary
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"word": "媚俗"
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{
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"word": "畸趣"
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
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"code": "fr",
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{
"code": "he",
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "it",
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"code": "fa",
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{
"code": "pl",
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{
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"code": "ru",
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"form": "kitschens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "uncountable",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "kitsch c (uncountable)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "kitsch c (uncountable)",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish links with redundant wikilinks",
"Swedish nouns",
"Swedish terms borrowed from German",
"Swedish terms derived from German",
"Swedish terms with usage examples",
"Swedish uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "My aunt's hand-painted ivory Madonna statue is pure kitsch.",
"text": "Min mosters handmålade madonnastaty i elfenben är ren kitsch.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"kitsch"
],
"links": [
[
"kitsch",
"kitsch#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kɪtɧ/",
"tags": [
"Sweden"
]
}
],
"word": "kitsch"
}
Download raw JSONL data for kitsch meaning in All languages combined (25.3kB)
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"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
"path": [
"kitsch"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "kitsch",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/20250113b",
"msg": "Rowspan 999 over 30, set to 1",
"path": [
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],
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"subsection": "noun",
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}
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