See Belt and Road in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "zh",
"3": "一帶一路",
"lit": "one belt one road"
},
"expansion": "Calque of Chinese 一帶一路 /一带一路 (yīdàiyīlù, literally “one belt one road”)",
"name": "calque"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of Chinese 一帶一路 /一带一路 (yīdàiyīlù, literally “one belt one road”). Belt refers to overland corridors and Road to maritime shipping lanes.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Belt and Road Initiative",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "One Belt One Road",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "Belt and Road"
},
"expansion": "Belt and Road",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "a development strategy adopted by the Chinese government involving infrastructure development and investments in countries in Europe, Asia and Africa",
"word": "Belt and Road Initiative"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English coordinated pairs",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
85,
98
],
[
258,
271
]
],
"ref": "2017 May 12, Tom Phillips, “The $900bn question: what is the Belt and Road initiative?”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "“It is a very confusing name,” admits Peter Cai, the author of a recent report about Belt and Road, who blames China’s propaganda-focused state media for failing to properly explain the concept to the world. “There is still a lot of confusion about what the Belt and Road initiative is and what it actually entails.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
46,
59
]
],
"ref": "2017 May 13, Jane Perlez, Yufan Huang, “Behind China’s $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order”, in New York Times:",
"text": "“Russia’s elites’ high expectations regarding Belt and Road have gone through a severe reality check, and now oligarchs and officials are skeptical about practical results,” said Alexander Gabuev, senior associate at the Carnegie Center in Moscow.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
15,
28
]
],
"ref": "2018 December 18, Karim Raslan, “2018 was meant to be Xi Jinping’s year. Then China’s Belt and Road unravelled”, in South China Morning Post:",
"text": "First off, the Belt and Road has failed. It has become the object of relentless criticism, if not ridicule: across the globe, projects have been attacked as overvalued and disconnected to the developmental needs of host countries. Indeed, they are mired in corruption, incompetence and skewed to China’s strategic interests.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
43,
56
],
[
188,
201
]
],
"ref": "2018 December 19, Maria Abi-Habib, “China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Plan in Pakistan Takes a Military Turn”, in New York Times:",
"text": "Chinese officials have repeatedly said the Belt and Road is purely an economic project with peaceful intent. But with its plan for Pakistan, China is for the first time explicitly tying a Belt and Road proposal to its military ambitions — and confirming the concerns of a host of nations who suspect the infrastructure initiative is really about helping China project armed might.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Ellipsis of Belt and Road Initiative.: a development strategy adopted by the Chinese government involving infrastructure development and investments in countries in Europe, Asia and Africa."
],
"id": "en-Belt_and_Road-en-name-8p1SMRg0",
"links": [
[
"Belt and Road Initiative",
"w:Belt and Road Initiative"
],
[
"Chinese",
"Chinese"
],
[
"infrastructure",
"infrastructure"
],
[
"investment",
"investment"
],
[
"Europe",
"Europe"
],
[
"Asia",
"Asia"
],
[
"Africa",
"Africa"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"ellipsis"
]
}
],
"word": "Belt and Road"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "zh",
"3": "一帶一路",
"lit": "one belt one road"
},
"expansion": "Calque of Chinese 一帶一路 /一带一路 (yīdàiyīlù, literally “one belt one road”)",
"name": "calque"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of Chinese 一帶一路 /一带一路 (yīdàiyīlù, literally “one belt one road”). Belt refers to overland corridors and Road to maritime shipping lanes.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Belt and Road Initiative",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "One Belt One Road",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "Belt and Road"
},
"expansion": "Belt and Road",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "a development strategy adopted by the Chinese government involving infrastructure development and investments in countries in Europe, Asia and Africa",
"word": "Belt and Road Initiative"
}
],
"categories": [
"English coordinated pairs",
"English ellipses",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English links with redundant alt parameters",
"English links with redundant wikilinks",
"English multiword terms",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms calqued from Chinese",
"English terms derived from Chinese",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
85,
98
],
[
258,
271
]
],
"ref": "2017 May 12, Tom Phillips, “The $900bn question: what is the Belt and Road initiative?”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "“It is a very confusing name,” admits Peter Cai, the author of a recent report about Belt and Road, who blames China’s propaganda-focused state media for failing to properly explain the concept to the world. “There is still a lot of confusion about what the Belt and Road initiative is and what it actually entails.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
46,
59
]
],
"ref": "2017 May 13, Jane Perlez, Yufan Huang, “Behind China’s $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order”, in New York Times:",
"text": "“Russia’s elites’ high expectations regarding Belt and Road have gone through a severe reality check, and now oligarchs and officials are skeptical about practical results,” said Alexander Gabuev, senior associate at the Carnegie Center in Moscow.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
15,
28
]
],
"ref": "2018 December 18, Karim Raslan, “2018 was meant to be Xi Jinping’s year. Then China’s Belt and Road unravelled”, in South China Morning Post:",
"text": "First off, the Belt and Road has failed. It has become the object of relentless criticism, if not ridicule: across the globe, projects have been attacked as overvalued and disconnected to the developmental needs of host countries. Indeed, they are mired in corruption, incompetence and skewed to China’s strategic interests.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
43,
56
],
[
188,
201
]
],
"ref": "2018 December 19, Maria Abi-Habib, “China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Plan in Pakistan Takes a Military Turn”, in New York Times:",
"text": "Chinese officials have repeatedly said the Belt and Road is purely an economic project with peaceful intent. But with its plan for Pakistan, China is for the first time explicitly tying a Belt and Road proposal to its military ambitions — and confirming the concerns of a host of nations who suspect the infrastructure initiative is really about helping China project armed might.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Ellipsis of Belt and Road Initiative.: a development strategy adopted by the Chinese government involving infrastructure development and investments in countries in Europe, Asia and Africa."
],
"links": [
[
"Belt and Road Initiative",
"w:Belt and Road Initiative"
],
[
"Chinese",
"Chinese"
],
[
"infrastructure",
"infrastructure"
],
[
"investment",
"investment"
],
[
"Europe",
"Europe"
],
[
"Asia",
"Asia"
],
[
"Africa",
"Africa"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"ellipsis"
]
}
],
"word": "Belt and Road"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Belt and Road meaning in English (4.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). 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.