"sphairistike" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Ancient Greek sphairistike, \"skill in playing at ball\".",
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      "expansion": "sphairistike (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, The Edinburgh review: or critical journal, A. Constable, page 72",
          "text": "The new appliances of the game sold under the rather too learned name of ‘sphairistikè’ have been lightened without, like their ancient representatives, being increased in size.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Come what may: an autobiography, Little, Brown and company, page 7",
          "text": "He observed that a wholesaler who supplied my grandfather with goods continued to advertise the implements of a new game, called \"Sphairistike.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Heiner Gillmeister, Tennis: a cultural history, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 181",
          "text": "At that time, he had not given a thought to his new game, and, as a consequence, the pastures around Rhysnant Hall are not likely to have been the place where the Major would have pitched his sphairistikè nets.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An early racquet sport that evolved into tennis."
      ],
      "id": "en-sphairistike-en-noun-ZM8GEsR8",
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "racquet",
          "racquet"
        ],
        [
          "sport",
          "sport"
        ],
        [
          "tennis",
          "tennis"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, archaic) An early racquet sport that evolved into tennis."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stické"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Stické"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sphairistike"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Ancient Greek sphairistike, \"skill in playing at ball\".",
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "sphairistike (uncountable)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, The Edinburgh review: or critical journal, A. Constable, page 72",
          "text": "The new appliances of the game sold under the rather too learned name of ‘sphairistikè’ have been lightened without, like their ancient representatives, being increased in size.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Come what may: an autobiography, Little, Brown and company, page 7",
          "text": "He observed that a wholesaler who supplied my grandfather with goods continued to advertise the implements of a new game, called \"Sphairistike.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Heiner Gillmeister, Tennis: a cultural history, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 181",
          "text": "At that time, he had not given a thought to his new game, and, as a consequence, the pastures around Rhysnant Hall are not likely to have been the place where the Major would have pitched his sphairistikè nets.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An early racquet sport that evolved into tennis."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "racquet",
          "racquet"
        ],
        [
          "sport",
          "sport"
        ],
        [
          "tennis",
          "tennis"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, archaic) An early racquet sport that evolved into tennis."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Stické"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "stické"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sphairistike"
}