See cannibalism in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cannibal",
"3": "-ism"
},
"expansion": "cannibal + -ism",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From cannibal + -ism.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cannibalisms",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-",
"2": "s"
},
"expansion": "cannibalism (usually uncountable, plural cannibalisms)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "autocannibalism"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "endocannibalism"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "exocannibalism"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "hypercannibalism"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "sexual cannibalism"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "anticannibalism"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "cannibal"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "cannibalistic"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "galactic cannibalism"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "kuru"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "mad cow disease"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "prion"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "anthropophagy"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "39 39 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 37 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ism",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 27 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 37 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 36 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 28 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 29 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Asturian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 26 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 27 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Danish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 32 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "45 27 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Faroese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 30 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 31 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 30 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 30 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 29 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 28 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 30 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 30 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Malay translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 28 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 29 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Manx translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 30 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 29 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 29 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Occitan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Persian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 31 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 30 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 30 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 28 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 31 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 29 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 29 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Telugu translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 29 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 29 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 32 18",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Diets",
"orig": "en:Diets",
"parents": [
"Food and drink",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 30 38",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Violence",
"orig": "en:Violence",
"parents": [
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 31:",
"text": "Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 August 23, Deborah L. Nichols, Patricia L. Crown, “9 Devouring Ourselves George J Armelagos”, in Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 218:",
"text": "HuFu and was promoting it as “the healthy human flesh alternative!” Mark Nuckols, inventor of HuFu, says, “I have to admit that I myself have never sampled human flesh. . . . However, I've done quite a bit of research on the history and anthropology of cannibalism and read enough accounts to have come up with a fairly good approximation”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of eating another of one's own species."
],
"id": "en-cannibalism-en-noun-9yI6KRr5",
"links": [
[
"eat",
"eat"
],
[
"species",
"species"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "mardakerutʻyun",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "մարդակերություն"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofaxa"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalismu"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofàgia"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalisme"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tónglèi xiāngshí",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "同類相食 /同类相食"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "shírén",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "食人"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanibalismus"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kannibalisme"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kannibalisme"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "kanibalismo"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "samspecimanĝado"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "mannaát"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "kannibalismi"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cannibalisme"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofaxia"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalismo"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kannibalismus"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kanivalismós",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κανιβαλισμός"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anthropofagía",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ανθρωποφαγία"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "anthrōpophagía",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "ἀνθρωποφαγία"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "allēlophagía",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "ἀλληλοφαγία"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "kanibalisme"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cannibalismo"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kanibarizumu",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "カニバリズム"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tomogui",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "共食い"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "hitokui",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "人食い"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "adam jegıştık",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "адам жегіштік"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "kanibalisme"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "canniblaght"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kannibalisme"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kannibalisme"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofagia"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalisme"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "hamnow'-xâri",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "همنوعخواری"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "âdam-xâri",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "آدمخواری"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofagia"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"literary",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ludożerstwo"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanibalizm"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofagia"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalismo"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "canibalism"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kannibalízm",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "каннибали́зм"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "ljudojédstvo",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "людое́дство"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "канибалѝзам"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "људо̀жде̄рство"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanibalìzam"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ljudòždērstvo"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ľudožrútstvo"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ľudojedstvo"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanibalizmus"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofágia"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofagia"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalismo"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kannibalism"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "svajāti bhakṣaṇa",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "స్వజాతి భక్షణ"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "naramāṁsa bhakṣaṇa",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "నరమాంస భక్షణ"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "yamyamlık"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kanibalízm",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "канібалі́зм"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ljudožérstvo",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "людоже́рство"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ljudojídstvo",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "людої́дство"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 10 3",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "ăn thịt đồng loại"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "39 39 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 37 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ism",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 37 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 36 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 28 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 26 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Faroese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 29 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 28 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Malay translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 29 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Persian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 28 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 30 38",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Violence",
"orig": "en:Violence",
"parents": [
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind."
],
"id": "en-cannibalism-en-noun-ebBvmaY5",
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
"parents": [
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "39 39 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 37 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ism",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 37 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 36 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 28 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 26 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Faroese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 29 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 28 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Malay translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 29 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Persian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "40 28 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 30 38",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Violence",
"orig": "en:Violence",
"parents": [
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, \"Look, an MIT shirt\" for \"Look, an MIT T-shirt\"."
],
"id": "en-cannibalism-en-noun--5tXUkqn",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"eliding",
"elide"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, \"Look, an MIT shirt\" for \"Look, an MIT T-shirt\"."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkanɪbəlɪz(ə)m/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-cannibalism.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/be/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-cannibalism.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-cannibalism.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/be/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-cannibalism.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-cannibalism.wav.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"cannibalism"
],
"word": "cannibalism"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ism",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Asturian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Faroese translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Kazakh translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Manx translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"Terms with Occitan translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Telugu translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"en:Diets",
"en:Violence"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cannibal",
"3": "-ism"
},
"expansion": "cannibal + -ism",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From cannibal + -ism.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cannibalisms",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-",
"2": "s"
},
"expansion": "cannibalism (usually uncountable, plural cannibalisms)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"word": "autocannibalism"
},
{
"word": "endocannibalism"
},
{
"word": "exocannibalism"
},
{
"word": "hypercannibalism"
},
{
"word": "sexual cannibalism"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "anticannibalism"
},
{
"word": "cannibal"
},
{
"word": "cannibalistic"
},
{
"word": "galactic cannibalism"
},
{
"word": "kuru"
},
{
"word": "mad cow disease"
},
{
"word": "prion"
},
{
"word": "anthropophagy"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 31:",
"text": "Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 August 23, Deborah L. Nichols, Patricia L. Crown, “9 Devouring Ourselves George J Armelagos”, in Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 218:",
"text": "HuFu and was promoting it as “the healthy human flesh alternative!” Mark Nuckols, inventor of HuFu, says, “I have to admit that I myself have never sampled human flesh. . . . However, I've done quite a bit of research on the history and anthropology of cannibalism and read enough accounts to have come up with a fairly good approximation”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of eating another of one's own species."
],
"links": [
[
"eat",
"eat"
],
[
"species",
"species"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Linguistics"
],
"glosses": [
"In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, \"Look, an MIT shirt\" for \"Look, an MIT T-shirt\"."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"eliding",
"elide"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, \"Look, an MIT shirt\" for \"Look, an MIT T-shirt\"."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkanɪbəlɪz(ə)m/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-cannibalism.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/be/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-cannibalism.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-cannibalism.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/be/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-cannibalism.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vininn126-cannibalism.wav.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "mardakerutʻyun",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "մարդակերություն"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofaxa"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalismu"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofàgia"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalisme"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tónglèi xiāngshí",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "同類相食 /同类相食"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "shírén",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "食人"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanibalismus"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kannibalisme"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kannibalisme"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "kanibalismo"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "samspecimanĝado"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "mannaát"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "kannibalismi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cannibalisme"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofaxia"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalismo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kannibalismus"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kanivalismós",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κανιβαλισμός"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anthropofagía",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ανθρωποφαγία"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "anthrōpophagía",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "ἀνθρωποφαγία"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "allēlophagía",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "ἀλληλοφαγία"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "kanibalisme"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cannibalismo"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kanibarizumu",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "カニバリズム"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tomogui",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "共食い"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "hitokui",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "人食い"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "adam jegıştık",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "адам жегіштік"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "kanibalisme"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "canniblaght"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kannibalisme"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kannibalisme"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofagia"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalisme"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "hamnow'-xâri",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "همنوعخواری"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "âdam-xâri",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "آدمخواری"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofagia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"literary",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ludożerstwo"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanibalizm"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofagia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalismo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "canibalism"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kannibalízm",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "каннибали́зм"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "of humans",
"roman": "ljudojédstvo",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "людое́дство"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "канибалѝзам"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "људо̀жде̄рство"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanibalìzam"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ljudòždērstvo"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ľudožrútstvo"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ľudojedstvo"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanibalizmus"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofágia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "antropofagia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "canibalismo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kannibalism"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "svajāti bhakṣaṇa",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "స్వజాతి భక్షణ"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "naramāṁsa bhakṣaṇa",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "నరమాంస భక్షణ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "yamyamlık"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kanibalízm",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "канібалі́зм"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ljudožérstvo",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "людоже́рство"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ljudojídstvo",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "людої́дство"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "act of eating another of one's own species",
"word": "ăn thịt đồng loại"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"cannibalism"
],
"word": "cannibalism"
}
Download raw JSONL data for cannibalism meaning in English (13.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.