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],
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{
"sense": "pet forms",
"word": "Mattie"
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{
"sense": "pet forms",
"word": "Matty"
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"sense": "pet forms",
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"sense": "pet forms",
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"sense": "pet forms",
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:",
"text": "But wondrously begotten, and begonne / By false illusion of a guilefull Spright, / On a faire Ladie Nonne, that whilome hight / Matilda, daughter to Pubidius, […]",
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},
{
"ref": "1844, George Payne Rainsford James, Rose D'Albret, Or, Troublous Times, a Romance, Harper, page 20:",
"text": "Countess of Laussitz - Matilda, too, by the mark! A good name, a marvellous good name, is not, Algernon? Musical, pretty, soft, smoothing, loveable. - - - many a fair prospect is spoiled by the mistake in the name. Call Matilda Joan, or Louisa Deborah, and you are ruined forever!",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1990, Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, .Stories, →ISBN, page 187:",
"text": "At one time Joan invented other names for her. 'Matilda' brought to mind dingy curtains, gray tent flaps, a slack-skinned old woman. How about Sharon? Lilliane? Elizabeth? Then, Joan didn't know how, the name Matilda became transformed. It started shining like silver. The \"il\" in it was silver. But not metallic. In Joan's mind the name gleamed now like a fold of satin.",
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"A female given name from the Germanic languages."
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"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "maeṭilḍa",
"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "ম্যাটিল্ডা"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Mǎdì'ěrdá",
"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "瑪蒂爾達 /玛蒂尔达"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Matylda"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Mathilde"
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"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Matilda"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Matilda"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Mathilde"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Mathilde"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Mechthild"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "Matthíldi",
"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ματθίλδη"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Matild"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Matilda"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Matilde"
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"code": "mr",
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"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "मटिल्डा"
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"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Mathilde"
},
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"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Mæþhild"
},
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"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
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"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
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"word": "Matilda"
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"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Мати́льда"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Matilde"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Matilda"
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"sense": "female given name, cognates and transliterations",
"word": "Matile"
}
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"Terms with French translations",
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"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Marathi translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
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"Terms with Russian translations",
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]
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"Either of two British infantry tanks in use during World War II, the Infantry Tank Mark I or Infantry Tank Mark II."
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{
"ref": "1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics):",
"text": "Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong,\n Under the shade of a coolibah tree,\nAnd he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling,\n 'Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda, with me.'",
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"sense": "infantry tank",
"word": "Matilda I"
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"sense": "infantry tank",
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}
],
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}
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