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"county seat",
"county seat"
],
[
"Walworth County",
"Walworth County#English"
],
[
"South Dakota",
"South Dakota#English"
],
[
"United States",
"United States#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Places in South Africa",
"en:Suburbs in South Africa"
],
"glosses": [
"A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa."
],
"links": [
[
"suburb",
"suburb"
],
[
"Johannesburg",
"Johannesburg#English"
],
[
"South Africa",
"South Africa#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Places in Australia",
"en:Places in Melbourne",
"en:Places in Victoria",
"en:Suburbs in Victoria"
],
"glosses": [
"A suburb of Melbourne, in the Shire of Yarra Ranges, Victoria, Australia."
],
"links": [
[
"suburb",
"suburb"
],
[
"Melbourne",
"Melbourne#English"
],
[
"Yarra Ranges",
"Yarra Ranges#English"
],
[
"Victoria",
"Victoria#English"
],
[
"Australia",
"Australia#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English surnames",
"English surnames from Old Norse"
],
"glosses": [
"A habitational surname from Old Norse."
],
"links": [
[
"habitational",
"habitational"
],
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Selby (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "Selby"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.
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