"KNIL" meaning in Dutch

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "K.N.I.L.",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "KNIL n",
      "name": "nl-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "Royal Dutch East Indies Army",
          "word": "Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "KNIL'er"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              180,
              184
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              151,
              179
            ]
          ],
          "english": "My father is a third-generation descendant of an African soldier, who after a deal between King William I and the king of Ashanti, had to serve in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army as an enslaved person.",
          "ref": "2025 July 23, Hank van Bosstraten, quotee, “‘Hij overleed in de armen van mijn moeder’ ['He died in my mother's arms']”, in NRC Handelsblad, retrieved 23 Jul 2025:",
          "text": "Mijn vader is een derde generatie nazaat van een Afrikaanse soldaat, die na een deal tussen koning Willem I en de koning van Ashanti als tot slaaf gemaakte in dienst moest bij het KNIL.",
          "translation": "My father is a third-generation descendant of an African soldier, who after a deal between King William I and the king of Ashanti, had to serve in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army as an enslaved person.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "abbreviation of Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger (“Royal Dutch East Indies Army”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-KNIL-nl-name-k9yL95wP",
      "links": [
        [
          "Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger",
          "Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger#Dutch"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/knɪl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "KNIL"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "KNIL'er"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "K.N.I.L.",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "KNIL n",
      "name": "nl-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "Royal Dutch East Indies Army",
          "word": "Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Dutch abbreviations",
        "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
        "Dutch lemmas",
        "Dutch neuter nouns",
        "Dutch proper nouns",
        "Dutch terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:Dutch/ɪl"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              180,
              184
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              151,
              179
            ]
          ],
          "english": "My father is a third-generation descendant of an African soldier, who after a deal between King William I and the king of Ashanti, had to serve in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army as an enslaved person.",
          "ref": "2025 July 23, Hank van Bosstraten, quotee, “‘Hij overleed in de armen van mijn moeder’ ['He died in my mother's arms']”, in NRC Handelsblad, retrieved 23 Jul 2025:",
          "text": "Mijn vader is een derde generatie nazaat van een Afrikaanse soldaat, die na een deal tussen koning Willem I en de koning van Ashanti als tot slaaf gemaakte in dienst moest bij het KNIL.",
          "translation": "My father is a third-generation descendant of an African soldier, who after a deal between King William I and the king of Ashanti, had to serve in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army as an enslaved person.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "abbreviation of Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger (“Royal Dutch East Indies Army”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger",
          "Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger#Dutch"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/knɪl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "KNIL"
}