See defo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_number": "1",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "defo (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Australian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Law",
"orig": "en:Law",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "39 33 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 16 41 17 4 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages using etymon with no ID",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 15 40 17 4 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with etymology trees",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 16 41 17 4 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"defamation"
],
"id": "en-defo-en-noun-2KzyXBn4",
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"defamation",
"defamation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(law, informal, Australia) defamation"
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"informal",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
}
],
"word": "defo"
}
{
"etymology_number": "2",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more defo",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most defo",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "defo (comparative more defo, superlative most defo)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "deffo"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "39 33 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of deffo."
],
"id": "en-defo-en-adj-QxqlJpvU",
"links": [
[
"deffo",
"deffo#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "defo"
}
{
"etymology_number": "2",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more defo",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most defo",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "defo (comparative more defo, superlative most defo)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "deffo"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "39 33 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of deffo."
],
"id": "en-defo-en-adv-QxqlJpvU",
"links": [
[
"deffo",
"deffo#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "defo"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English adverbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with etymology trees",
"Pages with etymon"
],
"etymology_number": "1",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "defo (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"English informal terms",
"en:Law"
],
"glosses": [
"defamation"
],
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"defamation",
"defamation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(law, informal, Australia) defamation"
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"informal",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
}
],
"word": "defo"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English adverbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with etymology trees",
"Pages with etymon"
],
"etymology_number": "2",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more defo",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most defo",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "defo (comparative more defo, superlative most defo)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "deffo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of deffo."
],
"links": [
[
"deffo",
"deffo#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "defo"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English adverbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with etymology trees",
"Pages with etymon"
],
"etymology_number": "2",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more defo",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most defo",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "defo (comparative more defo, superlative most defo)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "deffo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of deffo."
],
"links": [
[
"deffo",
"deffo#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "defo"
}
Download raw JSONL data for defo meaning in English (2.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-10-01 using wiktextract (19f9a30 and 6f96ddf). 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.