"BDO" meaning in English

See BDO in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: BDOs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} BDO (plural BDOs)
  1. (science fiction criticism) Initialism of Big Dumb Object. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Big Dumb Object Categories (topical): Science fiction
    Sense id: en-BDO-en-noun-GI~l-EoW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "BDOs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "BDO (plural BDOs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Big Dumb Object"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Science fiction",
          "orig": "en:Science fiction",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 January 8, James Davis Nicoll, “A Brief History of the Big Dumb Object Story in Science Fiction”, in Tor.com, archived from the original on 2022-11-28:",
          "text": "There may be another characteristic BDOs need to have to be considered a classic BDO: absent creators and a consequently mysterious purpose. At the very least, by the time the story begins, the BDO has been around for a long time.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of Big Dumb Object."
      ],
      "id": "en-BDO-en-noun-GI~l-EoW",
      "links": [
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "Big Dumb Object",
          "Big Dumb Object#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "science fiction criticism",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(science fiction criticism) Initialism of Big Dumb Object."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "BDO"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "BDOs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "BDO (plural BDOs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Big Dumb Object"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English initialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Science fiction"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 January 8, James Davis Nicoll, “A Brief History of the Big Dumb Object Story in Science Fiction”, in Tor.com, archived from the original on 2022-11-28:",
          "text": "There may be another characteristic BDOs need to have to be considered a classic BDO: absent creators and a consequently mysterious purpose. At the very least, by the time the story begins, the BDO has been around for a long time.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of Big Dumb Object."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "Big Dumb Object",
          "Big Dumb Object#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "science fiction criticism",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(science fiction criticism) Initialism of Big Dumb Object."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "BDO"
}

Download raw JSONL data for BDO meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (bcd5c38 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.