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"(literary) Welfare, prosperity."
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"sense": "community welfare",
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"ref": "1958, T. H. White, chapter 16, in The Once and Future King, London: Collins, published 1959",
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"ref": "2007, Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain, New York: Weinstein Books, Book Two, Chapter Twenty-One, p. 422",
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"word": "léas"
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"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
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"word": "kārawarawa"
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "wēl",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "blagodenstvie",
"sense": "community welfare",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "благоденствие"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xìngfú",
"sense": "community welfare",
"word": "幸福"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fúlì",
"sense": "community welfare",
"word": "福利"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "community welfare",
"word": "hyvinvointi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "community welfare",
"word": "hyvä"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "community welfare",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Wool"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blagosostojánije",
"sense": "community welfare",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "благосостоя́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blágo",
"sense": "community welfare",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "бла́го"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "community welfare",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bien común"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "community welfare",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "väl"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "community welfare",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "välstånd"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "community welfare",
"word": "gönenç"
}
],
"word": "weal"
}
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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 terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/iːl",
"Rhymes:English/iːl/1 syllable",
"en:Dermatology"
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"etymology_number": 2,
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"2": "wale"
},
"expansion": "wale",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "See wale.",
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{
"form": "weals",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
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"lang_code": "en",
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{
"categories": [
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1958, T. H. White, chapter 16, in The Once and Future King, London: Collins, published 1959",
"text": "He had been slashed sixteen times by mighty boars, and his legs had white weals of shiny flesh that stretched right up to his ribs.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain, New York: Weinstein Books, Book Two, Chapter Twenty-One, p. 422",
"text": "And I saw the green island in the immense sea, the borders of the sea curling with a lining of light, like a vast piece of rice paper, its edges alive with weals of red embers, ready to burst into flame.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt."
],
"links": [
[
"raised",
"raised#Adjective"
],
[
"longitudinal",
"longitudinal"
],
[
"wound",
"wound#Noun"
],
[
"purple",
"purple"
],
[
"surface",
"surface#Noun"
],
[
"flesh",
"flesh"
],
[
"caused",
"cause#Verb"
],
[
"stroke",
"stroke#Noun"
],
[
"rod",
"rod"
],
[
"whip",
"whip#Noun"
],
[
"welt",
"welt"
]
],
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{
"word": "wheal"
}
]
}
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"ipa": "/wiːl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/wil/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"homophone": "we'll"
},
{
"homophone": "wheal"
},
{
"homophone": "wheel (the latter two in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
},
{
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},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "wēl",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "šlinc"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "šlehanec"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "šrám"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "striem"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Strieme"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "mṓlōps",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μώλωψ"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "smôdix",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "σμῶδιξ"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"word": "léas"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"word": "pomfo"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vībex"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"word": "kārawarawa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "szrama"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"word": "pręga"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rubéc",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рубе́ц"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "roncha"
}
],
"word": "weal"
}
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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 terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/iːl",
"Rhymes:English/iːl/1 syllable",
"en:Dermatology"
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"2": "wale"
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"name": "m"
}
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{
"form": "weals",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wealing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wealed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "wealed",
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"past"
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}
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To mark with stripes; to wale."
],
"links": [
[
"wale",
"wale"
]
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/wiːl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/wil/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"homophone": "we'll"
},
{
"homophone": "wheal"
},
{
"homophone": "wheel (the latter two in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
},
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"enpr": "wēl",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "weal"
}
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