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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
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"tags": [
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
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],
"word": "מְצוּדָה"
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
"word": "城塞"
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
"word": "성채"
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
"tags": [
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],
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
"word": "toitoi"
},
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"code": "ota",
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"roman": "erk",
"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
"word": "ارك"
},
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
"word": "ارگ"
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"code": "fa",
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"roman": "kalât",
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"word": "کلات"
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
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"word": "cidadela"
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"roman": "citadɛ́lʹ",
"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
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],
"word": "цитаде́ль"
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
"tags": [
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "цитадела"
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "ciudadela"
},
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"_dis1": "91 5 2 2",
"code": "tl",
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
"word": "moog"
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{
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "cytadélʹ",
"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "цитаде́ль"
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"sense": "a strong fortress that sits high above a city",
"word": "ark"
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"ref": "1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England, page 269",
"text": "Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]",
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"sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
"word": "城堡"
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"alt": "じょうさい",
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"word": "城塞"
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"sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
"word": "성채"
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"sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
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"word": "кре́пость"
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"sense": "a stronghold or fortified place",
"word": "hisar"
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"ref": "2000, Lincoln P. Paine, Warships of the World to 1900",
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