See preceptor on Wiktionary
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"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "preceptora",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "preceptoras",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "m",
"f": "+"
},
"expansion": "preceptor m (plural preceptores, feminine preceptora, feminine plural preceptoras)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"pre‧cep‧tor"
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "precepto"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"preceptor"
],
"links": [
[
"preceptor",
"preceptor#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin American Spanish",
"Spanish terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "He did go down for the class, like clockwork, but he wouldn't go through the lessons, neither would he rebuke the boys, and the cane was gathering dust in the corner of the table. The absolutist teacher couldn't shake off the thought of the might dark image of his responsibility and punishment […]",
"ref": "1875, Benito Pérez Galdós, “chapter 16”, in 7 de Julio:",
"text": "Bajaba sí a la clase, puntual como un reloj; pero no tomaba las lecciones, ni reprendía a los chicos, y la palmeta se cubría de polvo en un rincón de la mesa. El preceptor absolutista no podía apartar el pensamiento de la tremenda imagen negra de su responsabilidad y castigo[…]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"teacher"
],
"links": [
[
"teacher",
"teacher"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(now chiefly Latin America) teacher"
],
"tags": [
"Latin-America",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɾeθebˈtoɾ/",
"tags": [
"Spain"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[pɾe.θeβ̞ˈt̪oɾ]",
"tags": [
"Spain"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɾesebˈtoɾ/",
"tags": [
"Latin-America",
"Philippines"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[pɾe.seβ̞ˈt̪oɾ]",
"tags": [
"Latin-America",
"Philippines"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-oɾ"
}
],
"word": "preceptor"
}
Download raw JSONL data for preceptor meaning in All languages combined (8.6kB)
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