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"ref": "2022 January 19, Yair Rosenberg, “Why So Many People Still Don’t Understand Anti-Semitism”, in The Atlantic:",
"text": "We do not spend our days huddled in smoke-filled rooms plotting world domination while Jared Kushner plays dreidel in the back with Noam Chomsky and George Soros sneaks the last latke.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A gambling game played using this top."
],
"links": [
[
"gambling",
"gambling#Noun"
],
[
"top",
"top#Noun"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɹeɪdl̩/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-dreidel.oga",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1d/En-us-dreidel.oga/En-us-dreidel.oga.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/En-us-dreidel.oga"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪdəl"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "draydel"
},
{
"word": "dreydel"
},
{
"word": "draydl"
},
{
"word": "dreidl"
},
{
"word": "dreydl"
},
{
"word": "dreidle"
},
{
"word": "dreydle"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "光明節陀螺"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guāngmíngjié tuóluó",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "光明节陀螺"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "hyrrä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "dreydel"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "sevivon"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dreidel"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "s'vivón",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "סְבִיבוֹן"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "trenderli"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "dreidel"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "sevivon"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "drejdel"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "dreidel"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "drejdl",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "дрейдл"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "dreidel"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "dreidel"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dreidl"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "dreydl",
"sense": "four-sided spinning top",
"word": "דריידל"
}
],
"word": "dreidel"
}
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