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"text": "The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.",
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"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
"word": "գնդապետ"
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"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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"word": "culunel"
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"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
"word": "polkovnik"
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"lang": "Azerbaijani",
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"roman": "palkóŭnik",
"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
"tags": [
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"word": "палко́ўнік"
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"roman": "kornel",
"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
"word": "কর্নেল"
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"word": "coronel"
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "soeng⁶ gaau³",
"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
"word": "上校"
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"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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"word": "colonel"
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"word": "Oberst"
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"word": "કર્નલ"
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"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
"word": "kolonel"
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"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
"tags": [
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"word": "colonnello"
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"_dis1": "55 10 8 10 16",
"alt": "たいさ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "taisa",
"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
"word": "大佐"
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"roman": "karnal",
"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
"word": "ಕರ್ನಲ್"
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"word": "វរសេនីយ៍ឯក"
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"word": "대령"
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"word": "상좌"
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"roman": "phan ʼēk",
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"word": "ພັນເອກ"
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"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "commissioned office in the armed services",
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"word": "colonel"
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"word": "polcovnic"
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"word": "пу̀ко̄внӣк"
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