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"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English proper nouns",
"English symbols",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English words without vowels",
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},
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},
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},
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],
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}
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{
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],
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],
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"computer language",
"computer language"
],
[
"programming language",
"programming language"
],
[
"C",
"C"
]
],
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],
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"engineering",
"mathematics",
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"sciences"
],
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]
}
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]
},
{
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"letter",
"name"
]
},
{
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},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/58/En-uk-b.ogg/En-uk-b.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/En-uk-b.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-B.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/86/En-au-B.ogg/En-au-B.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/En-au-B.ogg",
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],
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}
],
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}
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],
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}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
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"B"
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}
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"B",
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],
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}
{
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"B",
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}
{
"called_from": "page/1963",
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"B",
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}
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}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English 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.
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.