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"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "harraborg"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "skýborg"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"word": "tuulentupa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"word": "pilvilinna"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "châteaux en Espagne"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"word": "castelos no ar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Luftschloss"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Traumschloss"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "migdál poréaḥ baAvír",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"word": "מִגְדָּל פּוֹרֵחַ בָּאֲוִיר"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"word": "légvár"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"word": "waitara"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "luftslott"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "luftslott"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "castelo de vento"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "castelo no ar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozdúšnyj zámok",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "возду́шный за́мок"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "куле у зраку"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "kule u zraku"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "castillos en el aire"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "castillos de naipes"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "desire, idea, or plan unlikely to ever be realized",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "luftslott"
}
],
"word": "castle in the air"
}
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