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"etymology_text": "From Latin Croesus, from Ancient Greek Κροῖσος (Kroîsos), from Lydian.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Croesuses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Croesi",
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"plural"
]
}
],
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"examples": [
{
"text": "1875, Henry James, \"Benvolio\" in The Galaxy 20 (2) (August 1875).\n\"Decidedly he was to be a great man, and this was not the moment for letting him go! At the same time there was something impressive in this extraordinary lapse in his eagerness—in his finding it so easy to forget his honors. It was only an intellectual Croesus, the Countess said to herself, who could afford to keep so loose an account.\""
}
],
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"A rich person."
],
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"(figuratively) A rich person."
],
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]
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],
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"ipa": "/ˈkɹiːsəs/"
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"word": "Crœsus"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "figuratively: a rich person",
"word": "kroisos"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figuratively: a rich person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Krösus"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "Kroísos",
"sense": "figuratively: a rich person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Κροίσος"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "qârun",
"sense": "figuratively: a rich person",
"word": "قارون"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "figuratively: a rich person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "krezus"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "figuratively: a rich person",
"word": "krösus"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "figuratively: a rich person",
"word": "Karun"
}
],
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"Croesus"
],
"word": "Croesus"
}
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