"D.W.I." meaning in English

See D.W.I. in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} D.W.I. (uncountable)
  1. (law) Initialism of driving while intoxicated. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: driving while intoxicated Categories (topical): Law Synonyms: drunk driving, D.U.I.
    Sense id: en-D.W.I.-en-noun-Z69R9fQs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: law
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "D.W.I. (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "driving while intoxicated"
        }
      ],
      "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": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The only time he got into trouble with the law was when he was cited for D.W.I. in college.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of driving while intoxicated."
      ],
      "id": "en-D.W.I.-en-noun-Z69R9fQs",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "driving",
          "driving#English"
        ],
        [
          "while",
          "while#English"
        ],
        [
          "intoxicated",
          "intoxicated#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) Initialism of driving while intoxicated."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "drunk driving"
        },
        {
          "word": "D.U.I."
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "D.W.I."
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "D.W.I. (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "driving while intoxicated"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English initialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms spelled with .",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The only time he got into trouble with the law was when he was cited for D.W.I. in college.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of driving while intoxicated."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "driving",
          "driving#English"
        ],
        [
          "while",
          "while#English"
        ],
        [
          "intoxicated",
          "intoxicated#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) Initialism of driving while intoxicated."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "drunk driving"
    },
    {
      "word": "D.U.I."
    }
  ],
  "word": "D.W.I."
}

Download raw JSONL data for D.W.I. meaning in English (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (8c1bb29 and fb63907). 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.