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"word": "junior varsity"
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"(often attributive) university"
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"ref": "1903, Ralph Henry Barbour, C. M. Relyea, Weatherby's Inning: A Story of College Life and Baseball, New York: D. Appleton and Company",
"text": "There were sixteen of them in all, for the most part upper classmen who had failed to make the varsity the year before, with a sprinkling of sophomores and two freshmen.",
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},
{
"ref": "2019 November 13, Luke Winkie, “Why Colleges Are Betting Big on Video Games”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "A small Pennsylvania university has only one varsity program: e-sports. Is this the future of college athletics?",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"The principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.)"
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],
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],
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],
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"(sports, US) The principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.)"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sports team representing an institution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Unimannschaft"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sports team representing an institution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Universitätsmannschaft"
}
]
}
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
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"ipa": "/ˈvɑɹ.sɪ.ti/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈvɑɹsɪɾi]",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)sɪti"
},
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"tags": [
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)sɪti",
"Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)sɪti/3 syllables",
"en:Collectives",
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{
"word": "junior varsity"
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"word": "varsity letter"
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{
"word": "varsity jacket"
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"(often attributive) university"
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"ref": "1903, Ralph Henry Barbour, C. M. Relyea, Weatherby's Inning: A Story of College Life and Baseball, New York: D. Appleton and Company",
"text": "There were sixteen of them in all, for the most part upper classmen who had failed to make the varsity the year before, with a sprinkling of sophomores and two freshmen.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 November 13, Luke Winkie, “Why Colleges Are Betting Big on Video Games”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "A small Pennsylvania university has only one varsity program: e-sports. Is this the future of college athletics?",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"The principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.)"
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"high school",
"high school"
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"college",
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],
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]
],
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],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
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"lifestyle",
"sports"
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈvɑɹ.sɪ.ti/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈvɑɹsɪɾi]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)sɪti"
},
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"tags": [
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"text": "Audio (Canada)"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sports team representing an institution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Unimannschaft"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sports team representing an institution",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Universitätsmannschaft"
}
],
"word": "varsity"
}
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