"chara" meaning in English

See chara in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: charas [plural]
Etymology: From translingual/New Latin Chara. Etymology templates: {{der|en|mul|-}} translingual, {{der|en|NL.|Chara}} New Latin Chara Head templates: {{en-noun}} chara (plural charas)
  1. A green alga of the genus Chara. Synonyms: muskgrass
    Sense id: en-chara-en-noun-2pkzBJ~m Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: charas [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} chara (plural charas)
  1. Shortened form of charabanc
    Sense id: en-chara-en-noun-OloNn7Cf
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Download JSON data for chara meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mul",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "translingual",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "NL.",
        "3": "Chara"
      },
      "expansion": "New Latin Chara",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From translingual/New Latin Chara.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "charas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chara (plural charas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "69 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A green alga of the genus Chara."
      ],
      "id": "en-chara-en-noun-2pkzBJ~m",
      "links": [
        [
          "green alga",
          "green alga"
        ],
        [
          "Chara",
          "Chara"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "muskgrass"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chara"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "charas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chara (plural charas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Alf Townsend, The Charabanc: The Early Days of Motorised Coach Travel",
          "text": "The workers didn't get paid for any holidays, so a day out in a 'chara' was all they got.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Shortened form of charabanc"
      ],
      "id": "en-chara-en-noun-OloNn7Cf",
      "links": [
        [
          "charabanc",
          "charabanc#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chara"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from New Latin",
    "English terms derived from Translingual"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mul",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "translingual",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "NL.",
        "3": "Chara"
      },
      "expansion": "New Latin Chara",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From translingual/New Latin Chara.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "charas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chara (plural charas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A green alga of the genus Chara."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "green alga",
          "green alga"
        ],
        [
          "Chara",
          "Chara"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "muskgrass"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chara"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "charas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chara (plural charas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Alf Townsend, The Charabanc: The Early Days of Motorised Coach Travel",
          "text": "The workers didn't get paid for any holidays, so a day out in a 'chara' was all they got.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Shortened form of charabanc"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "charabanc",
          "charabanc#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chara"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.