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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"text": "That hat dates from the year dot.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1989 June, Phil South, “Rage Hard”, in Your Sinclair magazine, archived from the original on 2012-03-10",
"text": "Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"A very long time ago, from the beginning or as far back as one can remember."
],
"id": "en-year_dot-en-noun-NU5sIhsC",
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"(idiomatic, British, Ireland) A very long time ago, from the beginning or as far back as one can remember."
],
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"New-Zealand"
],
"word": "day dot"
}
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"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "any de la picor"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "vuosi yksi ja kaksi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "anno dazumal"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vo vrémja óno",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "во вре́мя о́но"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "año de la nana"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "año de la pera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "año de la polca"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "tiempos de Maricastaña"
}
]
}
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"text": "That hat dates from the year dot.",
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"ref": "1989 June, Phil South, “Rage Hard”, in Your Sinclair magazine, archived from the original on 2012-03-10",
"text": "Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.",
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],
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"A very long time ago, from the beginning or as far back as one can remember."
],
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],
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"(idiomatic, British, Ireland) A very long time ago, from the beginning or as far back as one can remember."
],
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],
"word": "day dot"
}
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "any de la picor"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "vuosi yksi ja kaksi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "anno dazumal"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vo vrémja óno",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "во вре́мя о́но"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "año de la nana"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "año de la pera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "año de la polca"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a very long time ago",
"word": "tiempos de Maricastaña"
}
],
"word": "year dot"
}
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