"Walter Mitty" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the main character in a short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939), by James Thurber.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Walter Mittys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Walter Mitties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "61 39",
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      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "61 39",
          "word": "Mittyesque"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "61 39",
          "word": "Walter Mittyish"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "61 39",
          "word": "Walter Mitty syndrome"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sad or pathetic person given to flights of fancy; a daydreamer."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "flights of fancy",
          "flight of fancy"
        ],
        [
          "daydreamer",
          "daydreamer"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An imposter, especially one falsely claiming to have done military service."
      ],
      "id": "en-Walter_Mitty-en-noun-bw2VixnZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "imposter",
          "imposter"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
  ],
  "word": "Walter Mitty"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Mittyesque"
    },
    {
      "word": "Walter Mittyish"
    },
    {
      "word": "Walter Mitty syndrome"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the main character in a short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939), by James Thurber.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Walter Mittys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Walter Mitties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A sad or pathetic person given to flights of fancy; a daydreamer."
      ],
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        [
          "flights of fancy",
          "flight of fancy"
        ],
        [
          "daydreamer",
          "daydreamer"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An imposter, especially one falsely claiming to have done military service."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "imposter",
          "imposter"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
  ],
  "word": "Walter Mitty"
}