"easy prey" meaning in English

See easy prey in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} easy prey (uncountable)
  1. A prey animal who is easily captured by a predator and cannot fight back effectively. Tags: uncountable Related terms: easy mark, easy target, easy meat
    Sense id: en-easy_prey-en-noun-0931iESL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "easy prey (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Having lost our weapons, we made very easy prey for the wildcats.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prey animal who is easily captured by a predator and cannot fight back effectively."
      ],
      "id": "en-easy_prey-en-noun-0931iESL",
      "links": [
        [
          "prey",
          "prey"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "easy mark"
        },
        {
          "word": "easy target"
        },
        {
          "word": "easy meat"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "easy prey"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "easy prey (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "easy mark"
    },
    {
      "word": "easy target"
    },
    {
      "word": "easy meat"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Having lost our weapons, we made very easy prey for the wildcats.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prey animal who is easily captured by a predator and cannot fight back effectively."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prey",
          "prey"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "easy prey"
}

Download raw JSONL data for easy prey meaning in English (0.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.