"don't" meaning in English

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Interjection

IPA: /dəʊnt/ [UK], [dəʊ̯nt̚] [UK], /doʊnt/ [US], [dõʊ̯̃(ʔ)t̚] [US], [doʊ̯n] [US], [dõʔ] [US] Audio: en-us-don't.ogg [US]
enPR: dōnt Rhymes: -əʊnt Etymology: From do + -n't. Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects "does" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|do|n't}} do + -n't Head templates: {{en-interj}} don't
  1. Stop!, Don't touch that! Translations (interjection): seis (Finnish), kauaka (Maori), kauraka (Maori), стой! (stoj) (Russian), не надо! (ne nádo) (Russian), låt bli! (Swedish), nej! (Swedish), stopp! (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-don't-en-intj-6hf3W7WN

Noun

IPA: /dəʊnt/ [UK], [dəʊ̯nt̚] [UK], /doʊnt/ [US], [dõʊ̯̃(ʔ)t̚] [US], [doʊ̯n] [US], [dõʔ] [US] Audio: en-us-don't.ogg [US] Forms: don'ts [plural], don't's [plural]
enPR: dōnt Rhymes: -əʊnt Etymology: From do + -n't. Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects "does" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|do|n't}} do + -n't Head templates: {{en-noun|+|don't's}} don't (plural don'ts or don't's)
  1. Something that must not be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts). Derived forms: dos and don'ts Related terms: didn't, doesn't
    Sense id: en-don't-en-noun-jvDY5ISw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -n't, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Northern Min terms with redundant transliterations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 62 6 2 27 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 2 69 5 3 20 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -n't: 7 57 12 6 18 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 3 55 10 7 25 Disambiguation of Northern Min terms with redundant transliterations: 4 58 7 2 30

Verb

IPA: /dəʊnt/ [UK], [dəʊ̯nt̚] [UK], /doʊnt/ [US], [dõʊ̯̃(ʔ)t̚] [US], [doʊ̯n] [US], [dõʔ] [US] Audio: en-us-don't.ogg [US]
enPR: dōnt Rhymes: -əʊnt Etymology: From do + -n't. Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects "does" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|do|n't}} do + -n't Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} don't
  1. do not (negative auxiliary) Translations (do not): moenie (Afrikaans), mos (Albanian), لَا (lā) (note: + jussive of the verb) (Arabic), mā (Ashkun), не (nje) (Belarusian), не (ne) (Bulgarian), မ verb နဲ့ (ma.) (Burmese), no (Catalan), бә (bə) [Dungan] (Chinese), бо (bo) [Dungan] (Chinese), бу (bu) [Dungan] (Chinese), 伓通 (m̄-thang) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 毋通 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 唔好 (m⁴ hou²) (Chinese Cantonese), (mai⁵) (Chinese Cantonese), 不要 (bùyào) (Chinese Mandarin), (Chinese Mandarin), (bié) (Chinese Mandarin), 別價 (Chinese Mandarin), 别价 (Chinese Mandarin), 别介 (biéjiè) (Chinese Mandarin), (bù) (Chinese Mandarin), ne- (Czech), 伓通 (n̂g-tĕ̤ng) (Eastern Min Chinese), (mŏ̤h) (Eastern Min Chinese), älä [singular] (Finnish), älkää [plural] (Finnish), ne... verb ...pas (French), ne... verb ...point [dialectal, literary] (French), არ (ar) (Georgian), არ გააკეთო (ar gaaḳeto) (Georgian), ნუ (nu) (Georgian), (mo̍k) (Hakka Chinese), 毋使 (m̀-sṳ́) (Hakka Chinese), אל (al) (note: + future third person verb of appropriate gender and number) (Hebrew), (na) (Hindi), मत (english: mat; less polite) (Hindi), nem [negative] (Hungarian), ne (english: prohibition) (Hungarian), ne (Ido), jangan (Indonesian), (Irish), non (Italian), ...ないでください (...naide kudasai) [polite] (Japanese), nā (Kamkata-viri), ali (Kapampangan), e- (Kapampangan), កុំ (kom) (Khmer), な (na) (Kikai), 지 말다 (-ji malda) (Korean), な (na) (Kunigami), ຢ່າ (yā) (Lao), ᦊᦱᧈ (ẏaa¹) (), не (ne) (Macedonian), aza (Malagasy), jangan (Malay), な (na) (Miyako), бүү (büü) (Mongolian), な (na) (Northern Amami-Oshima), (mŏ̤) (Northern Min Chinese), ikke (Norwegian Bokmål), ikkje (Norwegian Nynorsk), な (na) (Oki-No-Erabu), な (na) (Okinawan), نکن (nakon) (Persian), nie (Polish), não (Portuguese), nā (Prasuni), ma (Romani), nu (Romanian), не (ne) (Russian), मा (mā́) (Sanskrit), dinnae (Scots), не [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), немој [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), ne [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), nemoj [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), ne (Slovak), ne (Slovene), な (na) (Southern Amami-Oshima), no (Spanish), verb ...inte (Swedish), huwag (Tagalog), อย่า (yàa) (Thai), な (na) (Toku-No-Shima), не (ne) (Ukrainian), نـ (na-) (Urdu), مت (english: mat; less polite) (Urdu), đừng (Vietnamese), mā (Waigali), na (Welsh), peidio (Welsh), 勿要 (Wu Chinese), 𧟰 (Wu Chinese), な (na) (Yaeyama), נישט (nisht) (Yiddish), ניט (nit) (Yiddish), な (na) (Yonaguni), な (na) (Yoron), musa [singular] (Zulu), musani [plural] (Zulu), kahle [singular] (Zulu), kahleni [plural] (Zulu)
    Sense id: en-don't-en-verb-CUDDbyJB Disambiguation of 'do not': 55 43 2
  2. (nonstandard) does not Tags: nonstandard
    Sense id: en-don't-en-verb-AyD7NoKt
  3. (African-American Vernacular) Used before an emphatic negative subject.
    Sense id: en-don't-en-verb-MBvpNInF Categories (other): African-American Vernacular English

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "etymology_text": "From do + -n't.\nDepending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects \"does\" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all.",
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  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, The Police, \"Don't Stand So Close to Me\", Zenyatta Mondatta, A&M Records",
          "text": "Don't stand, Don't stand so, Don't stand so close to me."
        },
        {
          "text": "1990, Dave Mustaine, \"Take No Prisoners\", Megadeth, Rust in Peace.\nDon't ask what you can do for your country / Ask what your country can do for you",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 16, Joe Biden, quotee, 0:00 from the start, in President Biden warns Vladimir Putin not to use nuclear weapons: \"Don't. Don't. Don't.\", CBS News, archived from the original on 2022-09-16",
          "text": "Scott Pelley: As Ukraine succeeds on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is becoming embarrassed and pushed into a corner, and I wonder Mr. President what you would say to him if he is considering using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons.\nBiden: Don't. Don't. Don't. It would change the face of war unlike anything since World War II.",
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        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "moenie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "mos"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "note": "+ jussive of the verb",
          "roman": "lā",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "لَا"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ask",
          "lang": "Ashkun",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "mā"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "nje",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "не"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "ne",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "не"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "ma.",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "မ verb နဲ့"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "no"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "m⁴ hou²",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "唔好"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "mai⁵",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "咪"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "dng",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "roman": "bə",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "Dungan"
          ],
          "word": "бә"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "dng",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "roman": "bo",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "Dungan"
          ],
          "word": "бо"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "dng",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "roman": "bu",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "Dungan"
          ],
          "word": "бу"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cdo",
          "lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
          "roman": "n̂g-tĕ̤ng",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "伓通"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cdo",
          "lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
          "roman": "mŏ̤h",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "莫"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "hak",
          "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
          "roman": "mo̍k",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "莫"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "hak",
          "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
          "roman": "m̀-sṳ́",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "毋使"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "nan-hbl",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "roman": "m̄-thang",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "伓通"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "nan-hbl",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "roman": "zh-min-nan",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "毋通"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "nan-hbl",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "roman": "zh-min-nan",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "莫"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "bùyào",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "不要"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "別"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "bié",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "别"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "別價"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "别价"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "biéjiè",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "别介"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "bù",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "不"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "mnp",
          "lang": "Northern Min Chinese",
          "roman": "mŏ̤",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "莫"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "wuu",
          "lang": "Wu Chinese",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "勿要"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "wuu",
          "lang": "Wu Chinese",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "𧟰"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "ne-"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "note": "imperative + niet",
          "sense": "do not"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "note": "niet + infinitive",
          "sense": "do not"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "note": "ne + jussive",
          "sense": "do not"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "singular"
          ],
          "word": "älä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "älkää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "ne... verb ...pas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "dialectal",
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "ne... verb ...point"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ar",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "არ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ar gaaḳeto",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "არ გააკეთო"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "nu",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "ნუ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "note": "imperative + nicht",
          "sense": "do not"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "note": "nicht + infinitive",
          "sense": "do not"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "note": "+ future third person verb of appropriate gender and number",
          "roman": "al",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "אל"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "na",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "न"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "hi",
          "english": "mat; less polite",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "मत"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "negative"
          ],
          "word": "nem"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "english": "prohibition",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "ne"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "note": "ekki + infinitive",
          "sense": "do not"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "ne"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "jangan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "ná"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "non"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "note": "terminal + な (na)",
          "sense": "do not"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "...naide kudasai",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "polite"
          ],
          "word": "...ないでください"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "bsh",
          "lang": "Kamkata-viri",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "nā"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "pam",
          "lang": "Kapampangan",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "ali"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "pam",
          "lang": "Kapampangan",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "e-"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "kom",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "កុំ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "kzg",
          "lang": "Kikai",
          "roman": "na",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "-ji malda",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "지 말다"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "xug",
          "lang": "Kunigami",
          "roman": "na",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "yā",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "ຢ່າ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "note": "noli + infinitive",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "singular"
          ]
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "note": "nolite + infinitive",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ]
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "khb",
          "lang": "Lü",
          "roman": "ẏaa¹",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "ᦊᦱᧈ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "ne",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "не"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "mg",
          "lang": "Malagasy",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "aza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "jangan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "mvi",
          "lang": "Miyako",
          "roman": "na",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "büü",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "бүү"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ryn",
          "lang": "Northern Amami-Oshima",
          "roman": "na",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "do not",
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          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
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          "word": "ikkje"
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          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
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          "roman": "na",
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          "word": "な"
        },
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          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
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          "lang": "Okinawan",
          "roman": "na",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "nakon",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "نکن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "nie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
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          "word": "não"
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        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "prn",
          "lang": "Prasuni",
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          "word": "nā"
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        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
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          "lang": "Romani",
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          "word": "ma"
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          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "nu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ru",
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          "word": "не"
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          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
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          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "मा"
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        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
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          "lang": "Scots",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "dinnae"
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          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "sh",
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          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "немој"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "nemoj"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "ne"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "ne"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ams",
          "lang": "Southern Amami-Oshima",
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          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "no"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "verb ...inte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "huwag"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "yàa",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "อย่า"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "tkn",
          "lang": "Toku-No-Shima",
          "roman": "na",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "ne",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "не"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "na-",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "نـ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "ur",
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          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "مت"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "đừng"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "wbk",
          "lang": "Waigali",
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          "word": "mā"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "na"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "cy",
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          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "peidio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "rys",
          "lang": "Yaeyama",
          "roman": "na",
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          "word": "な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "nisht",
          "sense": "do not",
          "word": "נישט"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "yoi",
          "lang": "Yonaguni",
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          "word": "な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
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          "word": "な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
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          "lang": "Zulu",
          "sense": "do not",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "zu",
          "lang": "Zulu",
          "sense": "do not",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
          "code": "zu",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "55 43 2",
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        },
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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          "text": "The highway don't care",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, “Rico Acid”, Emily Blue (music)",
          "text": "Love don't come easy, I know that it don't",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      ],
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      "ipa": "/doʊnt/",
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          "code": "mi",
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          "code": "mi",
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          "code": "ru",
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          "code": "sv",
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          "ref": "1980, The Police, \"Don't Stand So Close to Me\", Zenyatta Mondatta, A&M Records",
          "text": "Don't stand, Don't stand so, Don't stand so close to me."
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, “Highway Don't Care”, in Tim McGraw (music), Two Lanes of Freedom",
          "text": "The highway don't care",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, “Rico Acid”, Emily Blue (music)",
          "text": "Love don't come easy, I know that it don't",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "does not"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "does",
          "does"
        ],
        [
          "not",
          "not"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard) does not"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "African-American Vernacular English",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don’t nobody care.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used before an emphatic negative subject."
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(African-American Vernacular) Used before an emphatic negative subject."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dəʊnt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[dəʊ̯nt̚]",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/doʊnt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[dõʊ̯̃(ʔ)t̚]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[doʊ̯n]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[dõʔ]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊnt"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-don't.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/87/En-us-don%27t.ogg/En-us-don%27t.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/En-us-don%27t.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "dōnt"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "moenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "mos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "note": "+ jussive of the verb",
      "roman": "lā",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "لَا"
    },
    {
      "code": "ask",
      "lang": "Ashkun",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "mā"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "nje",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "не"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ne",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "не"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "ma.",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "မ verb နဲ့"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "no"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "m⁴ hou²",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "唔好"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "mai⁵",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "咪"
    },
    {
      "code": "dng",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "bə",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "Dungan"
      ],
      "word": "бә"
    },
    {
      "code": "dng",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "bo",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "Dungan"
      ],
      "word": "бо"
    },
    {
      "code": "dng",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "bu",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "Dungan"
      ],
      "word": "бу"
    },
    {
      "code": "cdo",
      "lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
      "roman": "n̂g-tĕ̤ng",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "伓通"
    },
    {
      "code": "cdo",
      "lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
      "roman": "mŏ̤h",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "莫"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "mo̍k",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "莫"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "m̀-sṳ́",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "毋使"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "m̄-thang",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "伓通"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "zh-min-nan",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "毋通"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "zh-min-nan",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "莫"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bùyào",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "不要"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "別"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bié",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "别"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "別價"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "别价"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "biéjiè",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "别介"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bù",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "不"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnp",
      "lang": "Northern Min Chinese",
      "roman": "mŏ̤",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "莫"
    },
    {
      "code": "wuu",
      "lang": "Wu Chinese",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "勿要"
    },
    {
      "code": "wuu",
      "lang": "Wu Chinese",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "𧟰"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ne-"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "note": "imperative + niet",
      "sense": "do not"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "note": "niet + infinitive",
      "sense": "do not"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "note": "ne + jussive",
      "sense": "do not"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "älä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "älkää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ne... verb ...pas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "ne... verb ...point"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ar",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "არ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ar gaaḳeto",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "არ გააკეთო"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "nu",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ნუ"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "imperative + nicht",
      "sense": "do not"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "nicht + infinitive",
      "sense": "do not"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "note": "+ future third person verb of appropriate gender and number",
      "roman": "al",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "אל"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "न"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "english": "mat; less polite",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "मत"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ],
      "word": "nem"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "english": "prohibition",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ne"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "note": "ekki + infinitive",
      "sense": "do not"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ne"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "jangan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ná"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "non"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "note": "terminal + な (na)",
      "sense": "do not"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "...naide kudasai",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "polite"
      ],
      "word": "...ないでください"
    },
    {
      "code": "bsh",
      "lang": "Kamkata-viri",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "nā"
    },
    {
      "code": "pam",
      "lang": "Kapampangan",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ali"
    },
    {
      "code": "pam",
      "lang": "Kapampangan",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "e-"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "kom",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "កុំ"
    },
    {
      "code": "kzg",
      "lang": "Kikai",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "な"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "-ji malda",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "지 말다"
    },
    {
      "code": "xug",
      "lang": "Kunigami",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "な"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "yā",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ຢ່າ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "note": "noli + infinitive",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "note": "nolite + infinitive",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "khb",
      "lang": "Lü",
      "roman": "ẏaa¹",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ᦊᦱᧈ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ne",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "не"
    },
    {
      "code": "mg",
      "lang": "Malagasy",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "aza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "jangan"
    },
    {
      "code": "mvi",
      "lang": "Miyako",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "な"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "büü",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "бүү"
    },
    {
      "code": "ryn",
      "lang": "Northern Amami-Oshima",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "な"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ikke"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ikkje"
    },
    {
      "code": "okn",
      "lang": "Oki-No-Erabu",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "な"
    },
    {
      "code": "ryu",
      "lang": "Okinawan",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "な"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "nakon",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "نکن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "nie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "não"
    },
    {
      "code": "prn",
      "lang": "Prasuni",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "nā"
    },
    {
      "code": "rom",
      "lang": "Romani",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ma"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "nu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ne",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "не"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "mā́",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "मा"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "dinnae"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "не"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "немој"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "ne"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "nemoj"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ne"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ne"
    },
    {
      "code": "ams",
      "lang": "Southern Amami-Oshima",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "な"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "no"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "verb ...inte"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "huwag"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "yàa",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "อย่า"
    },
    {
      "code": "tkn",
      "lang": "Toku-No-Shima",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "な"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ne",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "не"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "na-",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "نـ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "english": "mat; less polite",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "مت"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "đừng"
    },
    {
      "code": "wbk",
      "lang": "Waigali",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "mā"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "na"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "peidio"
    },
    {
      "code": "rys",
      "lang": "Yaeyama",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "な"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "nisht",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "נישט"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "nit",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "ניט"
    },
    {
      "code": "yoi",
      "lang": "Yonaguni",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "な"
    },
    {
      "code": "yox",
      "lang": "Yoron",
      "roman": "na",
      "sense": "do not",
      "word": "な"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "musa"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "musani"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "kahle"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "do not",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "kahleni"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "don't"
  ],
  "word": "don't"
}

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  "categories": [
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    "English contractions",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms suffixed with -n't",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English verb forms",
    "Northern Min terms with redundant transliterations",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊnt",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊnt/1 syllable"
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "do",
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      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From do + -n't.\nDepending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects \"does\" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all.",
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      "name": "en-interj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Stop!, Don't touch that!"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Stop",
          "stop"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/dəʊnt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[dəʊ̯nt̚]",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/doʊnt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[dõʊ̯̃(ʔ)t̚]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[doʊ̯n]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[dõʔ]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊnt"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-don't.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/87/En-us-don%27t.ogg/En-us-don%27t.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/En-us-don%27t.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "dōnt"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "interjection",
      "word": "seis"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "interjection",
      "word": "kauaka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "interjection",
      "word": "kauraka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "stoj",
      "sense": "interjection",
      "word": "стой!"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ne nádo",
      "sense": "interjection",
      "word": "не надо!"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "interjection",
      "word": "låt bli!"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "interjection",
      "word": "nej!"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "interjection",
      "word": "stopp!"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "don't"
  ],
  "word": "don't"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "do"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English auxiliary verb forms",
    "English contractions",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms suffixed with -n't",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English verb forms",
    "Northern Min terms with redundant transliterations",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊnt",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊnt/1 syllable"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "dos and don'ts"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "do",
        "3": "n't"
      },
      "expansion": "do + -n't",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From do + -n't.\nDepending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects \"does\" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "don'ts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don't's",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "+",
        "2": "don't's"
      },
      "expansion": "don't (plural don'ts or don't's)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "didn't"
    },
    {
      "word": "doesn't"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem",
          "text": "Among the don'ts he had done before he was twenty-one were peyote, alcohol, mescaline, and Methedrine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that must not be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dos and don'ts",
          "dos and don'ts#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dəʊnt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[dəʊ̯nt̚]",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/doʊnt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[dõʊ̯̃(ʔ)t̚]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[doʊ̯n]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[dõʔ]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊnt"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-don't.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/87/En-us-don%27t.ogg/En-us-don%27t.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/En-us-don%27t.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "dōnt"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "don't"
  ],
  "word": "don't"
}

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