See dation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "dation in payment"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "datio",
"4": "datiōnem"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Latin datiōnem",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin datiōnem.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dations",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "dation (countable and uncountable, plural dations)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "dative"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Law",
"orig": "en:Law",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of giving, granting or conferring (e.g. an office) but not liberal as a donation or gift."
],
"id": "en-dation-en-noun-RCN9Purh",
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"giving",
"giving"
],
[
"granting",
"granting"
],
[
"conferring",
"conferring"
],
[
"liberal",
"liberal"
],
[
"donation",
"donation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, law) The act of giving, granting or conferring (e.g. an office) but not liberal as a donation or gift."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"rare",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Medicine",
"orig": "en:Medicine",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "39 61",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 67",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 67",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A dose."
],
"id": "en-dation-en-noun-XRxs2nNK",
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"dose",
"dose"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, medicine) A dose."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"obsolete",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "dation"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Latin",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "dation in payment"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "datio",
"4": "datiōnem"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Latin datiōnem",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin datiōnem.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dations",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "dation (countable and uncountable, plural dations)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "dative"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with rare senses",
"en:Law"
],
"glosses": [
"The act of giving, granting or conferring (e.g. an office) but not liberal as a donation or gift."
],
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"giving",
"giving"
],
[
"granting",
"granting"
],
[
"conferring",
"conferring"
],
[
"liberal",
"liberal"
],
[
"donation",
"donation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, law) The act of giving, granting or conferring (e.g. an office) but not liberal as a donation or gift."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"rare",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"en:Medicine"
],
"glosses": [
"A dose."
],
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"dose",
"dose"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, medicine) A dose."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"obsolete",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "dation"
}
Download raw JSONL data for dation meaning in English (1.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (96027d6 and 9905b1f). 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.