See Troy town in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Presumably because, in popular legend, the walls of the city of Troy were constructed in such a confusing and complex way that any enemy who entered would be unable to find his way out.", "forms": [ { "form": "Troy towns", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "Troy town (plural Troy towns)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "British English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "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" } ], "glosses": [ "A turf maze, especially one in England." ], "id": "en-Troy_town-en-noun--6kucXQW", "links": [ [ "turf", "turf" ], [ "maze", "maze" ], [ "England", "England" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK) A turf maze, especially one in England." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "Troytown" } ], "tags": [ "UK" ] } ], "word": "Troy town" }
{ "etymology_text": "Presumably because, in popular legend, the walls of the city of Troy were constructed in such a confusing and complex way that any enemy who entered would be unable to find his way out.", "forms": [ { "form": "Troy towns", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "Troy town (plural Troy towns)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "British English", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "glosses": [ "A turf maze, especially one in England." ], "links": [ [ "turf", "turf" ], [ "maze", "maze" ], [ "England", "England" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK) A turf maze, especially one in England." ], "tags": [ "UK" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "Troytown" } ], "word": "Troy town" }
Download raw JSONL data for Troy town meaning in English (0.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (bcd5c38 and 9dbd323). 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.