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"word": "aggravating circumstance"
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"word": "attenuating circumstance"
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"word": "mitigating circumstance"
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"word": "mitigating circumstances"
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"word": "pomp and circumstance"
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"word": "under no circumstance"
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"word": "under the circumstances"
}
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"name": "inh"
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"2": "fro",
"3": "circonstance"
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"name": "der"
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"3": "circumstantia"
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"expansion": "Latin circumstantia",
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English circumstaunce, from Old French circonstance, from Latin circumstantia.",
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{
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"tags": [
"plural"
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"source": "Thesaurus:circumstance",
"word": "state"
}
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"source": "Thesaurus:circumstance",
"word": "complication"
}
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"pos": "noun",
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"word": "circumstantial"
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"word": "coinstantial"
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"word": "circumspection"
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"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The report should focus on to the current circumstances of the organisation, to help us find a way to grow in the future.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "She went missing in somewhat spooky circumstances.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1819, Washington Irving, The Broken Heart",
"text": "The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace, →OL",
"text": "The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]",
"type": "quotation"
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"Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event."
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[
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"affect"
],
[
"fact",
"fact"
],
[
"event",
"event"
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],
"tags": [
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"uncountable"
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rrethanë"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥāla",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "حَالَة"
},
{
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ẓarf",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ظَرْف"
},
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"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hangamankʻ",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "հանգամանք"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "paraga",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "պարագա"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "hal"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "vəziyyət"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "akalíčnascʹ",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "акалі́чнасць"
},
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"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "poristhiti",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "পরিস্থিতি"
},
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"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "aōkat",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "আওকাত"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "halot",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "হালত"
},
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"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obstojátelstvo",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "обстоя́телство"
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{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "a.hkrea.ne",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "အခြေအနေ"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "circumstància"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "情況"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qíngkuàng",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "情况"
},
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"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "狀態"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhuàngtài",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "状态"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "okolnost"
},
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"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "omstændighed"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "omstandigheid"
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{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "cirkonstanco"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "asjaolu"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "olosuhteet"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "olot"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "circonstance"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "circunstancia"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "garemoeba",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "გარემოება"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Umstand"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nesibot",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "נסיבות"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "paristhiti",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "परिस्थिति"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "körülmény"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "kringumstæður"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "toisc"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "circostanza"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jōkyō",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "状況"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jijō",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "事情"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "jağdai",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "жағдай"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "kaalaʼteisaʼ",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "កាលៈទេសៈ"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sanghwang",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "상황"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "jagday",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "жагдай"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "ka la nī",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "ກະລະນີ"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "sa thā na",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "ສະຖານະ"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rēs"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "apstāklis"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "aplinkybė"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "okolnost",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "околност"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "keadaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "nöxcöl bajdal",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "нөхцөл байдал"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "nöküčel bayidal",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"Mongolian"
],
"word": "ᠨᠥᠬᠦᠴᠡᠯ ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠳᠠᠯ"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "omstendighet"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "omstende"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ymbstandennes"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "hâl",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "حال"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "hâlât",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "حالات"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "vaz'iyyat",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "وضعیت"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "šarâyet",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "شرایط"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Veheltniss"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "okoliczność"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "circunstância"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "circumstanță"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "împrejurare"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obstojátelʹstvo",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "обстоя́тельство"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uslóvije",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "усло́вие"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "situácija",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ситуа́ция"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "položénije",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "положе́ние"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cor"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "околност"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "okolnost"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "okolnosť"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "okoliščina"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "circunstancia"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "omständighet"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "holat",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "ҳолат"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "vazʾiyat",
"sense": "that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event",
"word": "вазъият"
},
{
"_dis1": "51 31 4 14",
"code": "tg",
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"word": "상황"
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"code": "ky",
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],
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"neuter"
],
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"neuter"
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],
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"code": "sl",
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"code": "vi",
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"code": "cy",
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"code": "hy",
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"sense": "event; fact; particular incident",
"word": "դեպք"
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"code": "cmn",
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"word": "事件"
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "omstandigheid"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "yhteensattuma"
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"code": "de",
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"tags": [
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"code": "it",
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"tags": [
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"word": "dettaglio"
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"code": "it",
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"tags": [
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"code": "ja",
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"word": "事件"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
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"sense": "event; fact; particular incident",
"word": "사건"
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"code": "la",
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"code": "ru",
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"tags": [
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"code": "es",
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"tags": [
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"word": "สถานการณ์"
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"code": "uk",
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"tags": [
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"code": "uk",
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"tags": [
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"code": "hy",
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"code": "hy",
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"code": "cmn",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "ru",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "circumlocution; detail",
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "circumstaunce"
},
"expansion": "Middle English circumstaunce",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "circonstance"
},
"expansion": "Old French circonstance",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "circumstantia"
},
"expansion": "Latin circumstantia",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English circumstaunce, from Old French circonstance, from Latin circumstantia.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "circumstances",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "circumstancing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "circumstanced",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "circumstanced",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "circumstance (third-person singular simple present circumstances, present participle circumstancing, simple past and past participle circumstanced)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"cir‧cum‧stance"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1949, Diderot Studies, volume 11, page 170",
"text": "While also taxing Ferrein with the same motives, Diderot's account of his doings is much more circumstanced than La Mettrie's, and also much more amusing, thanks to the interpolation of the «bijoux» motif.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɜːkəmst(ə)ns/",
"tags": [
"New-Zealand",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ɑːns/",
"tags": [
"New-Zealand",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-æns/",
"tags": [
"New-Zealand",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɝ.kəm.ˌstæns/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɜːkəmstæns/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian",
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-aːns/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian",
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-circumstance.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/En-us-circumstance.ogg/En-us-circumstance.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/En-us-circumstance.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "circumstaunce"
}
],
"word": "circumstance"
}
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