"allusion" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈlu.ʒən/ [US] Audio: En-us-allusion.oga Forms: allusions [plural]
Rhymes: -uːʒən Etymology: From Latin allūsiōnem, accusative singular of allūsiō (“the act of playing with”), from allūdō (“play with; allude”), from al-, combining form of ad (“to”), + lūdō (“play”): compare French allusion. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|allūsiōnem}} Latin allūsiōnem, {{cog|fr|allusion}} French allusion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} allusion (countable and uncountable, plural allusions)
  1. An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned. Wikipedia link: allusion Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: allude Translations (indirect reference, hint): تَلْمِيح (talmīḥ) [masculine] (Arabic), ակնարկ (aknark) (Armenian), eyham (Azerbaijani), намёк (namjók) [masculine] (Belarusian), алю́зія (aljúzija) [feminine] (Belarusian), на́мек (námek) [masculine] (Bulgarian), зага́тване (zagátvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), алю́зия (aljúzija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), al·lusió [feminine] (Catalan), 暗指 (ànzhǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 含義 (Chinese Mandarin), 含义 (hányì) (Chinese Mandarin), 寓意 (yùyì) (Chinese Mandarin), aluze [feminine] (Czech), hentydning [common-gender] (Danish), allusie [feminine] (Dutch), toespeling [feminine] (Dutch), zinspeling [feminine] (Dutch), aludo (Esperanto), alluusio (Finnish), viittaus (Finnish), vihje (Finnish), allusion [feminine] (French), alusión [feminine] (Galician), Anspielung [feminine] (German), Allusion [feminine] (German), νύξη (nýxi) [feminine] (Greek), υπαινιγμός (ypainigmós) [masculine] (Greek), utalás (Hungarian), kiasan (Indonesian), alusi (Indonesian), ailléideach [literary, masculine] (Irish), allusione [feminine] (Italian), 仄めかし (honomekashi) (alt: ほのめかし) (Japanese), 暗示 (anji) (alt: あんじ) (Japanese), 암시 (amsi) (alt: 暗示) (Korean), alūzija [feminine] (Latvian), mājiens [masculine] (Latvian), Allusioun [feminine] (Luxembourgish), алузија (aluzija) [feminine] (Macedonian), allusjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hentydning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), تلمیح (talmih) (Persian), aluzja [feminine] (Polish), alusão [feminine] (Portuguese), aluzie [feminine] (Romanian), аллю́зия (alljúzija) [feminine] (Russian), намёк (namjók) [masculine] (Russian), iomradh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), luaidh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), а̀лӯзија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), àlūzija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), alúzia [feminine] (Slovak), aluzija [feminine] (Slovene), alusión (Spanish), ᮞᮤᮔ᮪ᮓᮤᮁ (sindir) (Sundanese), allusion [common-gender] (Swedish), anspelning [common-gender] (Swedish), alusyon (Tagalog), patayutay (Tagalog), parunggit (Tagalog), gönderme (Turkish), на́тяк (nátjak) [masculine] (Ukrainian), алю́зія (aljúzija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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Inflected forms

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          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "aljúzija",
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          "tags": [
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "námek",
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          "word": "на́мек"
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          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "tags": [
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "aljúzija",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "алю́зия"
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "al·lusió"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "ànzhǐ",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "word": "暗指"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "word": "含義"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "hányì",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "word": "含义"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yùyì",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "word": "寓意"
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          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "hentydning"
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          "word": "allusie"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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          "word": "zinspeling"
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          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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          "word": "allusion"
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          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "alusión"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Anspielung"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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          "word": "Allusion"
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          "roman": "nýxi",
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          "word": "νύξη"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "word": "kiasan"
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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          "code": "ga",
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          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "tags": [
            "literary",
            "masculine"
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          "word": "ailléideach"
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          "word": "allusione"
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        {
          "alt": "ほのめかし",
          "code": "ja",
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          "roman": "honomekashi",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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        {
          "alt": "あんじ",
          "code": "ja",
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          "roman": "anji",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "word": "暗示"
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        {
          "alt": "暗示",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "amsi",
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          "word": "암시"
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          "lang": "Latvian",
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          "word": "mājiens"
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          "code": "lb",
          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Allusioun"
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          "code": "mk",
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          "roman": "aluzija",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "allusjon"
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          "code": "nb",
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          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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          "word": "hentydning"
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          "code": "fa",
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          "lang": "Polish",
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        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "aluzie"
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        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "alljúzija",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "аллю́зия"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
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          "tags": [
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            "feminine"
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "tags": [
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          "code": "es",
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          "code": "su",
          "lang": "Sundanese",
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "code": "tl",
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          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "word": "alusyon"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "word": "patayutay"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "word": "parunggit"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "word": "gönderme"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "nátjak",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "на́тяк"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "aljúzija",
          "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
          "tags": [
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        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
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        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Latvian translations",
        "Terms with Luxembourgish translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
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        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Sundanese translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Tagalog translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
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          "text": "I remember, before the Dwarf left the Queen, he followed us one day into thoſe gardens, and my Nurſe having ſet me down, he and I being cloſe together, near ſome Dwarf Apple trees, I muſt need ſhew my Wit, by a ſilly Alluſion between him and the Trees, which happens to hold in their Language as it doth in ours.",
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          "text": "We draw the conclusion then, that the very reason why the multitude, or the world, as they were designated by the Savior, did not receive an explanation upon his parables, was, because of unbelief. To you, he says, (speaking to his disciples) it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and why? because of the faith and confidence which they had in him. This parable was spoken to demonstrate the effects that are produced by the preaching of the word; and we believe that it has an allusion directly, to the commencement, or the setting up of the kingdom in that age[…]",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "تَلْمِيح"
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      "roman": "aknark",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "ակնարկ"
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      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "eyham"
    },
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      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "námek",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "на́мек"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "aljúzija",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "al·lusió"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "ànzhǐ",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "暗指"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "含義"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hányì",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "含义"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yùyì",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "寓意"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aluze"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "hentydning"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "allusie"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "toespeling"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zinspeling"
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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "aludo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "alluusio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "viittaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "vihje"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "allusion"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alusión"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Anspielung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Allusion"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "nýxi",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "νύξη"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ypainigmós",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "υπαινιγμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "utalás"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "kiasan"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "alusi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "literary",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ailléideach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "allusione"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ほのめかし",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "honomekashi",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "仄めかし"
    },
    {
      "alt": "あんじ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "anji",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "暗示"
    },
    {
      "alt": "暗示",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "amsi",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "암시"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alūzija"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mājiens"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Allusioun"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "aluzija",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "алузија"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "allusjon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hentydning"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "talmih",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "تلمیح"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aluzja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alusão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aluzie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "alljúzija",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "аллю́зия"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "namjók",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "намёк"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "iomradh"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "luaidh"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "а̀лӯзија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "àlūzija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alúzia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aluzija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "alusión"
    },
    {
      "code": "su",
      "lang": "Sundanese",
      "roman": "sindir",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "ᮞᮤᮔ᮪ᮓᮤᮁ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "allusion"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "anspelning"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "alusyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "patayutay"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "parunggit"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "word": "gönderme"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nátjak",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "на́тяк"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "aljúzija",
      "sense": "indirect reference, hint",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "алю́зія"
    }
  ],
  "word": "allusion"
}

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