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"ref": "1999, Hanns J. Prem, editor, Hidden among the Hills: Maya Archaeology of the Northwest Yucatan Peninsula (Acta Mesoamericana; 7), 2nd edition, Markt Schwaben, Bavaria, Germany: Verlag Anton Saurwein, page 206, column 1",
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"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "doselo"
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"word": "上段"
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"word": "연단"
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"word": "estrado"
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"ref": "1806, “The Mer-man, and Marstig's Daughter”, in Robert Jamieson, editor, Popular Ballads and Songs, from Tradition, Manuscripts, and Scarce Editions; with Translations of Similar Pieces from the Ancient Danish Language, and a Few Originals by the Editor, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; London: Cadell and Davies, and John Murray, →OCLC, pages 211 and 213–214",
"text": "[page 211] The Mer-man he stept o'er ae deas, / And he has steppit over three: / \"O maiden, pledge me faith and troth! / O Marstig's daughter, gang wi' me!\" […] [pages 213–214] Notes on The Mer-man. […] I remember having seen in the hall of the ruined castle of Elan Stalker, in the district of Appin, an old oaken deas, which was so contrived as to serve for a sittee; at meal-times the back was turned over, rested upon the arms, and became a table; and at night the seat was raised up, and displayed a commodious bed for four persons, two and two, feet to feet, to sleep in. I was told, that this kind of deas was formerly common in the halls of great houses, where such œconomy, with respect to bed-room, was very necessary.",
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"ref": "[1808, John Jamieson, “DAIS, Dess, Deas, s[ubstantive]”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: … In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press; for W[illiam] Creech, A[rchibald] Constable & Co., and W[illiam] Blackwood; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, T[homas] Cadell & W. Davies, and H. D. Symonds, →OCLC",
"text": "DAIS, Dess, Deas […] A long board, seat or bench erected against a wall. […] A pew in a church]",
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"ref": "1838, John Britton, “Dais, Deis”, in A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages: Including Words Used by Ancient and Modern Authors in Treating of Architectural and Other Antiquities: With Etymology, Definition, Description, and Historical Elucidation: Also, Biographical Notices of Ancient Architects, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster Row; and the author, Burton Street, →OCLC, page 111, column 2",
"text": "As the principal table was always placed upon a dais, it began very soon, by a natural abuse of words, to be called itself a Dais, and people were said to sit at the dais, instead of at the table upon the dais.",
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},
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},
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"2": "dais"
},
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},
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"2": "la",
"3": "discum"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "discus",
"3": "",
"4": "discus, disc, quoit; dish"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "discum",
"3": "",
"4": "table"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"2": "grc",
"3": "δίσκος",
"4": "",
"5": "discus, disc; tray"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "δικεῖν",
"3": "",
"4": "to cast, to throw; to strike"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "desco"
},
"expansion": "Italian desco",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "oc",
"2": "des"
},
"expansion": "Occitan des",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "desk",
"3": "disc",
"4": "discus",
"5": "dish",
"6": "disk",
"7": "diskos"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of desk, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English deis, from Anglo-Norman deis, from Old French deis, dois (modern French dais), from Latin discum, accusative singular of discus (“discus, disc, quoit; dish”) (Late Latin discum (“table”)), from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “discus, disc; tray”), from δικεῖν (dikeîn, “to cast, to throw; to strike”). Cognate with Italian desco, Occitan des. Doublet of desk, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.",
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{
"form": "daises",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dais (plural daises)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"word": "predella"
}
],
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],
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{
"ref": "1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 14, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 177",
"text": "Babbitt's party politely edged through them and into the whitewashed room, at the front of which was a dais with a red-plush throne and a pine altar painted watery blue, as used nightly by the Grand Masters and Supreme Potentates of innumerable lodges.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1974 June 10, Julie Baumgold, “The Golden Dais Days of Mary Beame”, in New York, volume 7, number 23, New York, N.Y.: NYM Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33",
"text": "A dais wife is a woman who sits at a round table with the wives of other men who are seated on the dais. Her husband sits on the dais, raised above the other people in the room, including his wife.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Hanns J. Prem, editor, Hidden among the Hills: Maya Archaeology of the Northwest Yucatan Peninsula (Acta Mesoamericana; 7), 2nd edition, Markt Schwaben, Bavaria, Germany: Verlag Anton Saurwein, page 206, column 1",
"text": "The daises of the Northwest Colonnade and the South Temple of the Warriors, the Mercado benches, and the benches of the Southeast Patio of the Iglesia are other instances where large groups of individuals in processions are shown.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from."
],
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"raised",
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],
[
"platform",
"platform"
],
[
"room",
"room"
],
[
"high table",
"high table"
],
[
"seat",
"seat#Noun"
],
[
"honour",
"honour"
],
[
"throne",
"throne"
],
[
"dignified",
"dignified"
],
[
"occupancy",
"occupancy"
],
[
"ancestral",
"ancestral"
],
[
"statues",
"statues"
],
[
"supporting",
"support#Verb"
],
[
"lectern",
"lectern"
],
[
"pulpit",
"pulpit"
],
[
"speak",
"speak"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "1806, “The Mer-man, and Marstig's Daughter”, in Robert Jamieson, editor, Popular Ballads and Songs, from Tradition, Manuscripts, and Scarce Editions; with Translations of Similar Pieces from the Ancient Danish Language, and a Few Originals by the Editor, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; London: Cadell and Davies, and John Murray, →OCLC, pages 211 and 213–214",
"text": "[page 211] The Mer-man he stept o'er ae deas, / And he has steppit over three: / \"O maiden, pledge me faith and troth! / O Marstig's daughter, gang wi' me!\" […] [pages 213–214] Notes on The Mer-man. […] I remember having seen in the hall of the ruined castle of Elan Stalker, in the district of Appin, an old oaken deas, which was so contrived as to serve for a sittee; at meal-times the back was turned over, rested upon the arms, and became a table; and at night the seat was raised up, and displayed a commodious bed for four persons, two and two, feet to feet, to sleep in. I was told, that this kind of deas was formerly common in the halls of great houses, where such œconomy, with respect to bed-room, was very necessary.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "[1808, John Jamieson, “DAIS, Dess, Deas, s[ubstantive]”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: … In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press; for W[illiam] Creech, A[rchibald] Constable & Co., and W[illiam] Blackwood; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, T[homas] Cadell & W. Davies, and H. D. Symonds, →OCLC",
"text": "DAIS, Dess, Deas […] A long board, seat or bench erected against a wall. […] A pew in a church]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A bench, a settle, a pew."
],
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[
"bench",
"bench"
],
[
"settle",
"settle#Noun"
],
[
"pew",
"pew"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical, northern British) A bench, a settle, a pew."
],
"tags": [
"British",
"Northern",
"historical"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1838, John Britton, “Dais, Deis”, in A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages: Including Words Used by Ancient and Modern Authors in Treating of Architectural and Other Antiquities: With Etymology, Definition, Description, and Historical Elucidation: Also, Biographical Notices of Ancient Architects, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster Row; and the author, Burton Street, →OCLC, page 111, column 2",
"text": "As the principal table was always placed upon a dais, it began very soon, by a natural abuse of words, to be called itself a Dais, and people were said to sit at the dais, instead of at the table upon the dais.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table."
],
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[
"elevated",
"elevated"
],
[
"table",
"table"
],
[
"hall",
"hall"
],
[
"important",
"important"
],
[
"people",
"people"
],
[
"seated",
"seat#Verb"
],
[
"high table",
"high table"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The canopy over an altar, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"canopy",
"canopy"
],
[
"altar",
"altar"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdeɪ.ɪs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdeɪ.əs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdeɪ.ɪs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdaɪ-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-əs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪəs"
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/En-us-dais.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
},
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"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
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{
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "podium"
},
{
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "daïs"
},
{
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"obsolete"
],
"word": "deas"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "deis"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podium",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "подиум"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "estrada",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "естрада"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "estrada"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pódium"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stupínek"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "podesta"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "podium"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "podium"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "verhoog"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "koroke"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "kateederi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "estradi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "estrade"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "taburno"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tañeira"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tarima"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sabeiro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "estrado"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Podium"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "exédra",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "εξέδρα"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "pódium"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "doselo"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "kaafedra"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ardán"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "podio"
},
{
"alt": "じょうだん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jōdan",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "上段"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yeondan",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "연단"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "suggestus"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "vyāspīṭ",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "व्यासपीट"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kürsi",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "كرسی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "podium"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "podest"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "podwyższenie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "estrado"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palanque"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pomóst",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "помо́ст"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozvyšénije",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "возвыше́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pódium",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "по́диум"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "káfedra",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ка́федра"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "estráda",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "эстра́да"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "àrd-ùrlar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tarima"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "podio"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "estrado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plataforma"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "podium"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "tarima"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "vēdika",
"sense": "raised platform",
"word": "వేదిక"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "llwyfan"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "raised platform",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "esgynlawr"
}
],
"word": "dais"
}
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