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}
],
"glosses": [
"To have a repartee (conversation marked by repartees)."
],
"links": [
[
"repartee",
"#Noun"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌɹɛpɑɹˈteɪ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌɹɛpɑːˈtiː/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "repartée"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reply with a swift witty retort",
"word": "schlagfertig antworten"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reply with a swift witty retort",
"word": "visszavág"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reply with a swift witty retort",
"word": "riposztoz"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reply with a swift witty retort",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pociskać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reply with a swift witty retort",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "pocisnąć"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to have a conversation marked by swift witty retorts",
"word": "sich einen Schlagabtausch m liefern"
}
],
"word": "repartee"
}
{
"called_from": "translations/609-20230504",
"msg": "Translation too long compared to word, so it is skipped",
"path": [
"repartee"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "repartee",
"trace": ""
}
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