See cordon off in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "cordons off",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "cordoning off",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "cordoned off",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "cordoned off",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "cordon off (third-person singular simple present cordons off, present participle cordoning off, simple past and past participle cordoned off)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "curtain off"
},
{
"word": "corral off"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
28,
40
]
],
"text": "A portion of the office was cordoned off during the outsiders' tour.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
11,
23
]
],
"text": "The police cordoned off the street while they investigated the accident.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
43,
55
]
],
"ref": "1956 October, “Notes and News: Radioactivity at Kings Cross”, in Railway Magazine, page 711:",
"text": "Part of No. 10 platform at Kings Cross was cordoned off on August 23 after a container of radio-active material had fallen from a trolley. The special box in which it was packed split open, allowing the container to fall out.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
104,
116
]
],
"ref": "2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 57, about the Moorgate tube crash:",
"text": "Moorgate itself was another story. Here, the area was humming with activity. The entire street had been cordoned off. Fire engines, police vehicles, and ambulances were coming and going, and emergency personnel were hurrying around.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To protect from intrusion by enclosing in a rope or other barrier."
],
"id": "en-cordon_off-en-verb-VtjODMYT",
"links": [
[
"protect",
"protect"
],
[
"intrusion",
"intrusion"
],
[
"enclosing",
"enclose"
],
[
"rope",
"rope"
],
[
"barrier",
"barrier"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To protect from intrusion by enclosing in a rope or other barrier."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cordon"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "sulkea köysiaidalla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "eristää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "boucler"
},
{
"alt": "けっかい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "kekkai",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "結界"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "oddzielać za pomocą taśmy lub liny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "oddzielić za pomocą taśmy lub liny"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "spärra av"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "avgränsa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "omgärda"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "isolera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "avsnöra"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "instänga"
}
]
}
],
"word": "cordon off"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "cordons off",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "cordoning off",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "cordoned off",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "cordoned off",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "cordon off (third-person singular simple present cordons off, present participle cordoning off, simple past and past participle cordoned off)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "curtain off"
},
{
"word": "corral off"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
28,
40
]
],
"text": "A portion of the office was cordoned off during the outsiders' tour.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
11,
23
]
],
"text": "The police cordoned off the street while they investigated the accident.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
43,
55
]
],
"ref": "1956 October, “Notes and News: Radioactivity at Kings Cross”, in Railway Magazine, page 711:",
"text": "Part of No. 10 platform at Kings Cross was cordoned off on August 23 after a container of radio-active material had fallen from a trolley. The special box in which it was packed split open, allowing the container to fall out.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
104,
116
]
],
"ref": "2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 57, about the Moorgate tube crash:",
"text": "Moorgate itself was another story. Here, the area was humming with activity. The entire street had been cordoned off. Fire engines, police vehicles, and ambulances were coming and going, and emergency personnel were hurrying around.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To protect from intrusion by enclosing in a rope or other barrier."
],
"links": [
[
"protect",
"protect"
],
[
"intrusion",
"intrusion"
],
[
"enclosing",
"enclose"
],
[
"rope",
"rope"
],
[
"barrier",
"barrier"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To protect from intrusion by enclosing in a rope or other barrier."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cordon"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "sulkea köysiaidalla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "eristää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "boucler"
},
{
"alt": "けっかい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "kekkai",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "結界"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "oddzielać za pomocą taśmy lub liny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "oddzielić za pomocą taśmy lub liny"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "spärra av"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "avgränsa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "omgärda"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "isolera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "avsnöra"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to enclose with rope barrier",
"word": "instänga"
}
],
"word": "cordon off"
}
Download raw JSONL data for cordon off meaning in English (4.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-09-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-23 using wiktextract (20da82b and a97feda). 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.