"UFO" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌjuːɛfˈəʊ/ [UK], /ˈjuːfəʊ̯/ [UK], /ˌjuˌɛfˈoʊ/ [US], /ˈjufoʊ̯/ [US], /ˈʌfoʊ̯/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-UFO.wav Forms: UFOs [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊ, -uːfəʊ Etymology: Abbreviations. Head templates: {{en-noun}} UFO (plural UFOs)
  1. Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: unidentified flying object (extra: (loosely) an alien spacecraft) Categories (topical): Ufology Synonyms: UAP Derived forms: UFOer, ufologist, ufology, UFO nest, UFO peach, UFO religion Related terms: USO, flying saucer, IFO Translations (an unidentified flying object): UFO (Albanian), OFP (Albanian), يُو أَف أَو (yū ʔaf ʔaw) (Arabic), الطَّبَق الطَّائِر (aṭ-ṭabaq aṭ-ṭāʔir) (Arabic), ՉԹՕ (ČʻTʻŌ) (Armenian), NUO (Azerbaijani), UFO (Azerbaijani), UNO (Azerbaijani), OHE (Basque), НЛА (NLA) [masculine] (Belarusian), НЛО (NLO) [neuter] (Bulgarian), ovni [masculine] (Catalan), UFO (ju¹ e¹ fu⁴ ou¹, ju¹ e¹ fou¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 飛碟 /飞碟 (alt: fei¹ dip⁶⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 不明飛行物 /不明飞行物 (bùmíng fēixíngwù) (Chinese Mandarin), 飛碟 /飞碟 (fēidié) (Chinese Mandarin), 幽浮 (yōufú) (Chinese Mandarin), UFO [neuter] (Czech), ufo [common-gender] (Danish), ufo [masculine] (Dutch), NIFO (Esperanto), nifo (Esperanto), ufo (Estonian), UFO (Finnish), ufo (Finnish), OVNI [masculine] (French), ovni [masculine] (Galician), ამო (amo) (Georgian), UFO [neuter] (German), ΑΤΙΑ (ATIA) (Greek), עב"ם ('abám) [masculine] (Hebrew), उड़न तश्तरी (uṛan taśtarī) (Hindi), उड़न खटोला (uṛan khaṭolā) (Hindi), ufó (Hungarian), FFH (Icelandic), úfó (Irish), UFO [masculine] (Italian), ufo m or OVNI (Italian), UFO (yūfō) (Japanese), 未確認飛行物体 (mikakunin hikō buttai) (alt: みかくにんひこうぶったい) (Japanese), maniewid [masculine] (Kashubian), БҰН (BŪN) (Kazakh), វត្ថុហោះហើរមិនស្គាល់អត្តសញ្ញាណ (vɔɔtthohɑhhaəmɨnskŏəlʼɑɑttɑɑhññiən) (Khmer), 유에프오 (yuepeuo) (Korean), 미확인비행물체 (mihwaginbihaengmulche) (Korean), NLO (Latvian), NSO (Lithuanian), НЛО (NLO) (Macedonian), ufo [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ufo [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), یوفو (yufo) (Persian), NOL [masculine] (Polish), UFO [neuter] (Polish), óvni [masculine] (Portuguese), ovni [masculine] (Portuguese), ufo [masculine] (Portuguese), OZN (Romanian), НЛО (NLO) [masculine] (Russian), НЛО [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), NLO [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), UFO (Slovak), NLP (Slovene), ovni [masculine] (Spanish), ufo [neuter] (Swedish), பறக்கும்தட்டு (paṟakkumtaṭṭu) (Tamil), UFO (Turkish), ufo (Turkish), uçan daire (Turkish), НЛО (NLO) (Ukrainian), NUJ (Uzbek), UFO (Vietnamese), vật thể bay không xác định (Vietnamese)
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  2. (colloquial) An "unfinished object" in knitting or other kinds of craft. Tags: colloquial
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  3. (astronomy) Initialism of ultrared flattened object. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: ultrared flattened object Categories (topical): Astronomy
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          "ref": "1967, Brad Steiger, Joan Whritenour, “Someone Up There May Not Like Us”, in Flying Saucers Are Hostile, Tandem Publishing, published 1975, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:",
          "text": "After the case had been reported in the newspapers, Mrs. Gracindo de Souza, wife of a member of the local stock exchange, told police that she and her daughter had been driving down Alameda Sao Boaventura when they had seen an^([sic]) UFO hovering over the clearing where the bodies were later discovered.",
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          "text": "To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped and filmed—and, by the way, unexplained—sightings from all over the world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced military and civilian radar operators.",
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    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
    "Terms with Uzbek translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "UFOer"
    },
    {
      "word": "ufologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "ufology"
    },
    {
      "word": "UFO nest"
    },
    {
      "word": "UFO peach"
    },
    {
      "word": "UFO religion"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cs",
            "2": "UFO",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Czech: UFO",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Czech: UFO"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "ufo",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Dutch: ufo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Dutch: ufo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "et",
            "2": "UFO",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Estonian: UFO",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Estonian: UFO"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fi",
            "2": "UFO",
            "3": "ufo",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Finnish: UFO, ufo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Finnish: UFO, ufo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "UFO",
            "alts": "1",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: UFO, Ufo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: UFO, Ufo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "ούφο",
            "alts": "1",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Greek: ούφο (oúfo)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Greek: ούφο (oúfo)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "UFO",
            "alts": "1",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: UFO, ufo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: UFO, ufo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "UFO",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "yūfō"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese: UFO (yūfō)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Japanese: UFO (yūfō)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "no",
            "2": "-",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian: ufo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "UFO",
            "alts": "1",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: UFO, ufo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: UFO, ufo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "ufo",
            "alts": "1",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Swedish: ufo, UFO",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Swedish: ufo, UFO"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Abbreviations.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "UFOs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "UFO (plural UFOs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "USO"
    },
    {
      "word": "flying saucer"
    },
    {
      "word": "IFO"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "(loosely) an alien spacecraft",
          "word": "unidentified flying object"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Ufology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, Brad Steiger, Joan Whritenour, “Someone Up There May Not Like Us”, in Flying Saucers Are Hostile, Tandem Publishing, published 1975, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:",
          "text": "After the case had been reported in the newspapers, Mrs. Gracindo de Souza, wife of a member of the local stock exchange, told police that she and her daughter had been driving down Alameda Sao Boaventura when they had seen an^([sic]) UFO hovering over the clearing where the bodies were later discovered.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, George Carlin, “THEY CAME FROM OUT OF THE SKY”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 12:",
          "text": "To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped and filmed—and, by the way, unexplained—sightings from all over the world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced military and civilian radar operators.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unidentified flying object",
          "unidentified flying object#English"
        ],
        [
          "alien",
          "alien"
        ],
        [
          "spacecraft",
          "spacecraft"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Kerry Wills, The Close-knit Circle: American Knitters Today, page 107:",
          "text": "UFOs differ from WIPs in that a WIP is a project one is actively pursuing, while a UFO runs the risk of never getting finished.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An \"unfinished object\" in knitting or other kinds of craft."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "knitting",
          "knitting"
        ],
        [
          "craft",
          "craft"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) An \"unfinished object\" in knitting or other kinds of craft."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "ultrared flattened object"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "en:Astronomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of ultrared flattened object."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "ultrared",
          "ultrared#English"
        ],
        [
          "flattened",
          "flattened#English"
        ],
        [
          "object",
          "object#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy) Initialism of ultrared flattened object."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌjuːɛfˈəʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈjuːfəʊ̯/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌjuˌɛfˈoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈjufoʊ̯/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʌfoʊ̯/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊ"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːfəʊ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "UAP"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "UFO"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "OFP"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "yū ʔaf ʔaw",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "يُو أَف أَو"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "aṭ-ṭabaq aṭ-ṭāʔir",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "الطَّبَق الطَّائِر"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ČʻTʻŌ",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "ՉԹՕ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "NUO"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "UFO"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "UNO"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "OHE"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "NLA",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "НЛА"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "NLO",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "НЛО"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ovni"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "UFO (ju¹ e¹ fu⁴ ou¹, ju¹ e¹ fou¹)"
    },
    {
      "alt": "fei¹ dip⁶⁻²",
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "飛碟 /飞碟"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bùmíng fēixíngwù",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "不明飛行物 /不明飞行物"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fēidié",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "飛碟 /飞碟"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yōufú",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "幽浮"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "UFO"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ufo"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ufo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "NIFO"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "nifo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "ufo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "UFO"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "ufo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "OVNI"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ovni"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "amo",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "ამო"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "UFO"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ATIA",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "ΑΤΙΑ"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "'abám",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "עב\"ם"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "uṛan taśtarī",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "उड़न तश्तरी"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "uṛan khaṭolā",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "उड़न खटोला"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "ufó"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "FFH"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "úfó"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "UFO"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "ufo m or OVNI"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "UFO (yūfō)"
    },
    {
      "alt": "みかくにんひこうぶったい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mikakunin hikō buttai",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "未確認飛行物体"
    },
    {
      "code": "csb",
      "lang": "Kashubian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "maniewid"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "BŪN",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "БҰН"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "vɔɔtthohɑhhaəmɨnskŏəlʼɑɑttɑɑhññiən",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "វត្ថុហោះហើរមិនស្គាល់អត្តសញ្ញាណ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "yuepeuo",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "유에프오"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "mihwaginbihaengmulche",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "미확인비행물체"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "NLO"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "NSO"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "NLO",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "НЛО"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ufo"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ufo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "yufo",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "یوفو"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "NOL"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "UFO"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "óvni"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ovni"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ufo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "OZN"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "NLO",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "НЛО"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "НЛО"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "NLO"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "UFO"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "NLP"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ovni"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ufo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "paṟakkumtaṭṭu",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "பறக்கும்தட்டு"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "UFO"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "ufo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "uçan daire"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "NLO",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "НЛО"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "NUJ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "UFO"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "an unidentified flying object",
      "word": "vật thể bay không xác định"
    }
  ],
  "word": "UFO"
}

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