"Japan cat" meaning in English

See Japan cat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Japan cats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Japan cat (plural Japan cats)
  1. (dated) A toast rack (“rack for holding toasted bread”). Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-Japan_cat-en-noun-PFtUyCjI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Japan cats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Japan cat (plural Japan cats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              47,
              56
            ],
            [
              92,
              101
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XI, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 59:",
          "text": "[\"I]t was only last Christmas that I bought my Japan cat. / \"Dear me,\" said Miss Jemima; \"a Japan cat! that must be very curious. What sort of a creature is it?\" / \"Don't you know? Bless me, a thing with three legs, and holds toast! [...]\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A toast rack (“rack for holding toasted bread”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-Japan_cat-en-noun-PFtUyCjI",
      "links": [
        [
          "toast rack",
          "toast rack#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A toast rack (“rack for holding toasted bread”)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Japan cat"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Japan cats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Japan cat (plural Japan cats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              47,
              56
            ],
            [
              92,
              101
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XI, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 59:",
          "text": "[\"I]t was only last Christmas that I bought my Japan cat. / \"Dear me,\" said Miss Jemima; \"a Japan cat! that must be very curious. What sort of a creature is it?\" / \"Don't you know? Bless me, a thing with three legs, and holds toast! [...]\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A toast rack (“rack for holding toasted bread”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "toast rack",
          "toast rack#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A toast rack (“rack for holding toasted bread”)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Japan cat"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Japan cat 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 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 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.