See clique in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "It is sufficient to state, that the Royal Academy […] has excluded and persecuted many of the greatest we possess, and that at the moment, sixty-five years after its establishment, our greatest living artists, with scarcely any exceptions, have not been educated at an academy, intended of course to educate genius, even more than to support it afterwards! With the assumption of a public body, it has combined the exclusiveness of a private clique.",
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"text": "There had been talk of some disagreement about a picture, but in Sir Maxwell's experience, artists frequently disagreed about pictures, with no more consequences than a little cold-shouldering or the formation of a clique.",
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"word": "dəstə"
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"word": "colla"
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"word": "aicme"
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"word": "associazione"
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
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"word": "파벌"
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"word": "stronnictwo"
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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"word": "clique"
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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"word": "panelinha"
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
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"word": "clică"
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"_dis1": "75 7 12 6",
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"roman": "klíka",
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"tags": [
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"word": "кли́ка"
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"ref": "2022, Vivienne Xiangwei Guo, “The Beginning of the End: Wu Peifu and Good Government”, in Negotiating a Chinese Federation: The Exchange of Ideas and Political Collaborations between China’s Men of Guns and Men of Letters, 1919–1923 (Ideas, History, and Modern China; 28), Leiden, South Holland; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 143:",
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"tags": [
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{
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
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},
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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{
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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],
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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],
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "it",
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"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "consorteria"
},
{
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"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "conventicola"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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],
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{
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
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{
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{
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{
"code": "kk",
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{
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{
"code": "ko",
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"roman": "paegeori",
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"lang_code": "lv",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "lt",
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"lang_code": "lt",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "klika"
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{
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "клика"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
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{
"code": "nb",
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "klikk"
},
{
"code": "fa",
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"roman": "goruhak",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"word": "گروهک"
},
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "pl",
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"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "pl",
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"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clique"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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],
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "группиро́вка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
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"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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"word": "кли̏ка"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
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"feminine"
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{
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "klika"
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{
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
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],
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],
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
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],
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{
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
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"tags": [
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"word": "klick"
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{
"code": "th",
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{
"code": "th",
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"lang_code": "th",
"roman": "gók",
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{
"code": "th",
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"lang_code": "th",
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{
"code": "th",
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"lang_code": "th",
"roman": "lào",
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"word": "เหล่า"
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{
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"lang_code": "th",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"word": "พรรคพวก"
},
{
"code": "th",
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"lang_code": "th",
"roman": "pûuak",
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"word": "พวก"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"lang_code": "th",
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{
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"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"word": "klik"
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{
"code": "uk",
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"lang_code": "uk",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "клі́ка"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"word": "bè lũ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
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"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"word": "bọn"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "small, exclusive group of individuals, usually having some common characteristic",
"word": "đảng phái"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "tuán",
"sense": "subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph",
"word": "團 /团"
},
{
"code": "cs",
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"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "klika"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "clique"
},
{
"code": "eo",
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"lang_code": "eo",
"sense": "subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph",
"word": "kliko"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph",
"word": "klikki"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph",
"tags": [
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{
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