"countling" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "count + -ling",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From count + -ling.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "countlings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "countling (plural countlings)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, Andrew Hamilton, Sixteen Months in the Danish Isles - Volume 2 - Page 6",
          "text": "I did not see, but was told of the existence of a tiny countling, less and younger than any of his sisters, and probably too important to be shown about. Indeed he was a very weighty personage, as without him the possessions of his father must [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A young, inferior, insignificant, or petty count."
      ],
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        [
          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ],
        [
          "count",
          "count"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "word": "countling"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "count",
        "3": "ling"
      },
      "expansion": "count + -ling",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From count + -ling.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "countlings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "countling (plural countlings)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "I did not see, but was told of the existence of a tiny countling, less and younger than any of his sisters, and probably too important to be shown about. Indeed he was a very weighty personage, as without him the possessions of his father must [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A young, inferior, insignificant, or petty count."
      ],
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        [
          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ],
        [
          "count",
          "count"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "countling"
}