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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "anbiento",
"sense": "Type of modern music",
"word": "アンビエント"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "Type of modern music",
"word": "ambientā mūzika"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Type of modern music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ambient"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Type of modern music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ambient"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "embijént",
"sense": "Type of modern music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "эмбие́нт"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"ambient"
],
"word": "ambient"
}
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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