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"lang": "European Portuguese",
"sense": "particle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bosão"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bozón",
"sense": "particle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бозо́н"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "bosāṇu",
"sense": "particle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "बोसाणु"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "particle",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "бо̀зо̄н"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "particle",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bòzōn"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "particle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bozón"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "particle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bosón"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "particle",
"word": "boson"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "muḻuccuḻali",
"sense": "particle",
"word": "முழுச்சுழலி"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "particle",
"word": "bozon"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"boson"
],
"word": "boson"
}
{
"categories": [
"English contractions",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "boatswain"
},
"expansion": "Contraction of boatswain",
"name": "contraction"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Contraction of boatswain.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bosons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "boson (plural bosons)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:boson",
"word": "gauge boson"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:boson",
"word": "Higgs boson"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:boson",
"word": "photon"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A boatswain."
],
"links": [
[
"boatswain",
"boatswain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A boatswain."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:boson",
"word": "boson"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"boson"
],
"word": "boson"
}
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