"mite box" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From (widow's) mite (“small donation”) + box.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mite boxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "mite box (plural mite boxes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye, published 2004, page 20:",
          "text": "Even if there had been time for mite boxes they were not such a good idea after all, she corrected herself.[…]It was not a neat and tidy mite box the way Beulah Ball's was; it was a dirty, torn, loose mite box, and so was Jerry's.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Carol Bonomo, Humble Pie: St. Benedict's Ladder of Humility, page 46:",
          "text": "For us, Lent was about the mite boxes we were given in each Sunday school class through sixth grade.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Marty Toohey, Bronx Boy: A Memoir, page 76:",
          "text": "Sister Vincetta, principal of St. Augustine's Elementary School, told us that the pennies in the mite box fed starving children all over China.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A box, especially in a church, into which small charitable donations for the needy may be placed; (now commonly) any of a number of cardboard boxes distributed for individual donations."
      ],
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        [
          "box",
          "box"
        ],
        [
          "church",
          "church"
        ],
        [
          "charitable",
          "charitable"
        ],
        [
          "donation",
          "donation"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "box for small donations",
          "word": "alms box"
        },
        {
          "sense": "box for small donations",
          "word": "poor box"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "mite box"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mite box"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From (widow's) mite (“small donation”) + box.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mite boxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mite box (plural mite boxes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye, published 2004, page 20:",
          "text": "Even if there had been time for mite boxes they were not such a good idea after all, she corrected herself.[…]It was not a neat and tidy mite box the way Beulah Ball's was; it was a dirty, torn, loose mite box, and so was Jerry's.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Carol Bonomo, Humble Pie: St. Benedict's Ladder of Humility, page 46:",
          "text": "For us, Lent was about the mite boxes we were given in each Sunday school class through sixth grade.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Marty Toohey, Bronx Boy: A Memoir, page 76:",
          "text": "Sister Vincetta, principal of St. Augustine's Elementary School, told us that the pennies in the mite box fed starving children all over China.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A box, especially in a church, into which small charitable donations for the needy may be placed; (now commonly) any of a number of cardboard boxes distributed for individual donations."
      ],
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        [
          "box",
          "box"
        ],
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          "church",
          "church"
        ],
        [
          "charitable",
          "charitable"
        ],
        [
          "donation",
          "donation"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "mite box"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "box for small donations",
      "word": "alms box"
    },
    {
      "sense": "box for small donations",
      "word": "poor box"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mite box"
}