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"Doubt; conjecture."
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"(obsolete) Doubt; conjecture."
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"ref": "1481, Author unknown (pseudonym Sir John Mandeville), The travels of Sir John Mandeville",
"text": "And when they will fight they will shock them together in a plump; that if there be 20000 men, men shall not ween that there be scant 10000."
},
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"ref": "1562, John Heywood, The proverbs, epigrams, and miscellanies of John Heywood",
"text": "Wise men in old time would ween themselves fools; Fools now in new time will ween themselves wise.",
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{
"ref": "1677, Thomas Mall, A cloud of witnesses",
"text": "… for I ween he will no longer suffer him to abide among the adulterous and wicked Generation of this World.",
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"ref": "1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida",
"text": "Yet humble second shall be first, I ween",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad",
"text": "Klapaucius too, I ween,\nWill turn the deepest green\nTo hear such flawless verse from Trurl’s machine.",
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"To suppose, imagine; to think, believe."
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"(archaic) To suppose, imagine; to think, believe."
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"To expect, hope or wish."
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"(dated) To expect, hope or wish."
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"(obsolete) To lament."
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "wi"
},
"expansion": "ween (definite form ween wi)",
"name": "wo-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Wolof",
"lang_code": "wo",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Wolof entries with incorrect language header",
"Wolof lemmas",
"Wolof nouns",
"Wolof terms with audio links",
"wo:Anatomy"
],
"glosses": [
"breast"
],
"links": [
[
"breast",
"breast"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "Wo-ween.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/Wo-ween.ogg/Wo-ween.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Wo-ween.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "ween"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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