See where there is a will on Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "where there is a will",
"name": "en-proverb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "proverb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "where there is a will there is a way"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English proverbs",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English subordinate clauses",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "[2007, Christopher J. Gallagher, S. Barry Issenberg, “Attendance and Scheduling Issues”, in Simulation in Anesthesia, Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier, →ISBN, page 64:",
"text": "Scheduling is the killer of Simulators. But where there's a will … you know the rest. Kill the Scheduling Monster before it kills you.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Ellipsis of where there is a will there is a way."
],
"id": "en-where_there_is_a_will-en-proverb-CxfPbTb6",
"links": [
[
"where there is a will there is a way",
"where there is a will there is a way#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"ellipsis"
]
}
],
"word": "where there is a will"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "where there is a will",
"name": "en-proverb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "proverb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "where there is a will there is a way"
}
],
"categories": [
"English ellipses",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proverbs",
"English subordinate clauses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "[2007, Christopher J. Gallagher, S. Barry Issenberg, “Attendance and Scheduling Issues”, in Simulation in Anesthesia, Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier, →ISBN, page 64:",
"text": "Scheduling is the killer of Simulators. But where there's a will … you know the rest. Kill the Scheduling Monster before it kills you.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Ellipsis of where there is a will there is a way."
],
"links": [
[
"where there is a will there is a way",
"where there is a will there is a way#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"ellipsis"
]
}
],
"word": "where there is a will"
}
Download raw JSONL data for where there is a will meaning in All languages combined (1.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.