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},
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"2": "don"
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"expansion": "Italian don",
"name": "cog"
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"expansion": "Sicilian don",
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"expansion": "Spanish don",
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"word": "donzel"
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"A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge."
],
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"An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents."
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"glosses": [
"A mafia boss."
],
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"mafia",
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"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 2 95 1 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lǎodà",
"sense": "mafia boss",
"word": "老大"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 95 1 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "mafia boss",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "maffiabaas"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 95 1 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mafia boss",
"word": "mafiapomo"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 95 1 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mafia boss",
"word": "don"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mafia boss",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "don"
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"_dis1": "2 2 95 1 0",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "don",
"sense": "mafia boss",
"word": "ドン"
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{
"_dis1": "2 2 95 1 0",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "mafia boss",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafiatopp"
},
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"_dis1": "2 2 95 1 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "paxán",
"sense": "mafia boss",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "паха́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 95 1 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "páxan",
"sense": "mafia boss",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "па́хан"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"lang": "Russian",
"sense": "mafia boss",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "дон"
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "don",
"sense": "mafia boss",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дон"
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]
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{
"text": "Coordinate term: donna"
},
{
"ref": "1845 September, Charles F. Ellerman, “Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba”, in Simmonds’s Colonial Magazine, volume VI, number 21, London, chapter VIII (Mrs. Smith seized with furor scribendi, writes a lengthy Epistle to her dear Cousin Mrs. Margery Stubbs), page 79",
"text": "Wo often of an evening go and hear the band in the square opposite the captin-giniral’s palace—it is here were the dons and donnas and all the fashionables assemble, and I must say it’s amusing.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1906 August, Harry H. Dunn, “Afoot in California”, in Western Field, volume 9, number 1, San Francisco, Calif., page 481, column 1",
"text": "Time was when the walker amid California vales could stop at some cool cellar hid in these western hills and pour from great flagons a shimmering glass of cool red wine. Nowadays, the hand of the law has stepped in and spoiled all this, because the hordes of wanderers who have come west have made of these resting places questionable resorts—made of them places that the Spanish dons and donnas never dreamed of.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2019, Caleb Stewart Rossiter, “Taking the Handles: Debating History and Morality”, in The Turkey and the Eagle: The Struggle for America’s Global Role, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing, page 283",
"text": "A sustained media campaign against American domination would require the support of just a few dot-com dons and donnas or hedge fund phenoms who want to head straight for structural change and skip the reformist way stations supported by philanthropic business leaders like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen, Gary Hirshberg, and the later[ ]Paul Newman’s family.",
"type": "quotation"
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"A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman."
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"lord",
"lord#English"
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[
"nobleman",
"nobleman#English"
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"name": "Multicultural London English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2017 October 31, Loski (lyrics and music), “Olympic Chinging”, from 1:55",
"text": "I’m confused like who’s this don\n.22 bells and that who’s on",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Any man, bloke, dude."
],
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"man"
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[
"bloke",
"bloke"
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[
"dude",
"dude"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(MLE) Any man, bloke, dude."
],
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English"
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"ipa": "/dɒn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
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{
"ipa": "/dɑn/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"homophone": "Don"
},
{
"homophone": "dawn (with cot-caught merger)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒn"
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"3": "don",
"4": "",
"5": "to put on"
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"expansion": "Middle English don (“to put on”)",
"name": "inh"
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"2": "ang",
"3": "dōn on"
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"form": "dons",
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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"word": "doff"
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"word": "donner"
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{
"text": "To don one's clothes.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "1886-88, Richard Francis Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night",
"text": "Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41",
"text": "Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire."
],
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"put on",
"put on"
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[
"clothing",
"clothing"
],
[
"dress",
"dress"
],
[
"attire",
"attire"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire."
],
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{
"word": "put on"
},
{
"word": "wear"
},
{
"english": "etymologically unrelated",
"word": "ram-don"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "put on"
},
{
"word": "clothe"
},
{
"word": "dight"
},
{
"word": "enrobe"
},
{
"word": "clothe"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
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{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "keyew",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "кейеү"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obličam",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "обличам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "navličam",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "навличам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "posar-se"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chuānshang",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "穿上"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "obléci si"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vzít si na sebe"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "nasadit si"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "tage på"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "aantrekken"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "zich uitdossen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "surmeti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "pukeutua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "sonnustautua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "pukea ylleen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "mettre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "enfiler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "revêtir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "anziehen"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "gahamōn",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌼𐍉𐌽"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "felvesz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ölt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "felölt"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "metar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "mettere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "indossare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "portare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"english": "a hat",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaburu",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"usually"
],
"word": "かぶる"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"english": "footwear",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "haku",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "履く"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"english": "other clothes",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kiru",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "着る"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "induo"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ta på"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ta på seg"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"english": "helmet, hat, mask etc.",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "bære"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ubierać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "zakładać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "wkładać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "vestir"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nadevátʹ",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "надева́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nadétʹ",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "наде́ть"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "pravaste",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "प्रवस्ते"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "обла́чити"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"perfective"
],
"word": "о̀бӯћи"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "одије́вати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"perfective"
],
"word": "о̀дјенути"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "obláčiti"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"perfective"
],
"word": "òbūći"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "odijévati"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"perfective"
],
"word": "òdjenuti"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "mittìrisi"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "abbiàrisi"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "purtari"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "obleči"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "nadeti"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ikläda sig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ta på sig"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sài",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ใส่"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "odjahaty",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "одягати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nadjahaty",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "надягати"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "mặc"
}
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/dɒn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/dɑn/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"homophone": "Don"
},
{
"homophone": "dawn (with cot-caught merger)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒn"
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"tags": [
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"ref": "1906 August, Harry H. Dunn, “Afoot in California”, in Western Field, volume 9, number 1, San Francisco, Calif., page 481, column 1",
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"ref": "2019, Caleb Stewart Rossiter, “Taking the Handles: Debating History and Morality”, in The Turkey and the Eagle: The Struggle for America’s Global Role, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing, page 283",
"text": "A sustained media campaign against American domination would require the support of just a few dot-com dons and donnas or hedge fund phenoms who want to head straight for structural change and skip the reformist way stations supported by philanthropic business leaders like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen, Gary Hirshberg, and the later[ ]Paul Newman’s family.",
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"ref": "2017 October 31, Loski (lyrics and music), “Olympic Chinging”, from 1:55",
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"ref": "1886-88, Richard Francis Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night",
"text": "Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.",
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"ref": "2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41",
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"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "keyew",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "кейеү"
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"sense": "put on clothes",
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{
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"roman": "navličam",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "навличам"
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"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "posar-se"
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"roman": "chuānshang",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "穿上"
},
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"sense": "put on clothes",
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{
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"perfective"
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{
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"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "tage på"
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"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "aantrekken"
},
{
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"word": "zich uitdossen"
},
{
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"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "surmeti"
},
{
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"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "pukeutua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "sonnustautua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "pukea ylleen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "mettre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "enfiler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "revêtir"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "anziehen"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "gahamōn",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌼𐍉𐌽"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "felvesz"
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"sense": "put on clothes",
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{
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{
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"sense": "put on clothes",
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},
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"word": "mettere"
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"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "indossare"
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{
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"word": "portare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"english": "a hat",
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"roman": "kaburu",
"sense": "put on clothes",
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{
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"roman": "haku",
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"roman": "kiru",
"sense": "put on clothes",
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{
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"sense": "put on clothes",
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{
"code": "no",
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"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ta på"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ta på seg"
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{
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"english": "helmet, hat, mask etc.",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "put on clothes",
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ubierać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "zakładać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "wkładać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "vestir"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nadevátʹ",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "надева́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nadétʹ",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "наде́ть"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "pravaste",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "प्रवस्ते"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
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"word": "обла́чити"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
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"perfective"
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},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
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"imperfective"
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"word": "одије́вати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
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"perfective"
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"word": "о̀дјенути"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "sh",
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"tags": [
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"word": "òbūći"
},
{
"code": "sh",
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"tags": [
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"imperfective"
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},
{
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"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "mittìrisi"
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{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "abbiàrisi"
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{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "purtari"
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{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "obleči"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "nadeti"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ikläda sig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ta på sig"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sài",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "ใส่"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "odjahaty",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "одягати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nadjahaty",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "надягати"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "put on clothes",
"word": "mặc"
}
],
"word": "don"
}
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