See Balor in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Balor",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Irish mythology",
"orig": "en:Irish mythology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "92 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "89 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "90 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A king of the Fomorians, supposed to have lived on Tory Island. Son of Buarainech. Husband of Cethlenn. Father of Ethniu."
],
"id": "en-Balor-en-name-XYZhtMtB",
"links": [
[
"Irish",
"Irish"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"Buarainech",
"Buarainech"
],
[
"Cethlenn",
"Cethlenn"
],
[
"Ethniu",
"Ethniu"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Irish mythology) A king of the Fomorians, supposed to have lived on Tory Island. Son of Buarainech. Husband of Cethlenn. Father of Ethniu."
],
"tags": [
"Irish"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English given names",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English male given names",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A male given name."
],
"id": "en-Balor-en-name-yDfLNrGi",
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A male given name."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "Balor"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Balor",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Irish mythology"
],
"glosses": [
"A king of the Fomorians, supposed to have lived on Tory Island. Son of Buarainech. Husband of Cethlenn. Father of Ethniu."
],
"links": [
[
"Irish",
"Irish"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"Buarainech",
"Buarainech"
],
[
"Cethlenn",
"Cethlenn"
],
[
"Ethniu",
"Ethniu"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Irish mythology) A king of the Fomorians, supposed to have lived on Tory Island. Son of Buarainech. Husband of Cethlenn. Father of Ethniu."
],
"tags": [
"Irish"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English given names",
"English male given names",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A male given name."
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A male given name."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "Balor"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Balor meaning in English (1.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). 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.