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"word": "ไคเซอร์"
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"english": "particularly the Austro-Hungarian emperor",
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"word": "ці́сар"
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"ref": "1915, T. P.'s Weekly - Volume 26, page 444",
"text": "And Black Ivo is a veritable Kaiser.",
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"ref": "1916, The Provocation of France, page 147",
"text": "[…] that President Poincare, the first servant of France, is still Louis XIV, the former War-Lord, the Kaiser of France […]",
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"ref": "1919, Far Eastern Political Science Review - Volume 1, page 49",
"text": "Senator Sherman vigorously assailed the Shantung agreement, declaring that it would make the Mikado a veritable Kaiser of the Far East and alienate the sympathies of the 400,000,000 Chinese – from the people of the United States.",
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"ref": "1929, Through the Leaves, page 489",
"text": "[…] which, from the banking point of view, the National City Bank is a veritable kaiser.",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.