See ersatz in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2004 May 31, The New Yorker:",
"text": "The crowd wandered out to a huge party on the ersatz city blocks of the Paramount lot.",
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{
"ref": "2016 December 12, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Time-Travel Therapy”, in The Atlantic:",
"text": "If all goes according to plan, the ersatz city hall will soon be relocated to a former lumber warehouse in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista, at which point construction on the rest of Town Square will start.",
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"word": "knock off"
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"word": "gingerbread"
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"ipa": "/ˈɛəɹsɑts/",
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"ipa": "/ˈɛəɹzɑts/",
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"US"
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"ipa": "/ɛəɹˈsɑːts/",
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"ipa": "/ɛəɹˈzɑːts/",
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"ipa": "/ˈɝsæts/",
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"word": "Captain Ersatz"
},
{
"word": "ersatzer"
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{
"word": "ersatzism"
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"word": "ersatzist"
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"ref": "1951, United States. Congress, Chemicals in Food Products, U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 400:",
"text": "The important point I want to emphasize here is that, regardless of a Government agency's conception of what a consumer expects of a food item, by and large the consumer detests the use of chemicals in foods as substitutes for nutritious, wholesome natural ingredients which improve flavor and quality. The consumer has little to gain in purchasing a product containing questionable ersatzes if his life is to be endangered or he will suffer ill effects.",
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{
"ref": "1955 June 30, “Ersatzes for Ersatzes”, in The Christian Science Monitor, volume 47, number 182:",
"text": "What intrigues us is what will happen when the ersatzes for the ersatzes come along. Will characters start substituting for actors, bona fide dogs for barking ladies; will people start looking at people again instead of television and at nature instead of at documentaries?",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2003 July 7, A. S Byatt, “Harry Potter and the Childish Adult”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
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{
"ref": "2016 [c. 1927], Joanne Turnbull, The Return of Munchausen, New York: New York Review of Books, translation of Возвращение Мюнхгаузена by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, →ISBN, page 5:",
"text": "“You do Berlin a disservice, baron. We too have mastered a few things: ersatzes, for instance, and the metaphysics of fictionalism—”",
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"ipa": "/ˈɛəɹzɑts/",
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"US"
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"ipa": "/ɛəɹˈsɑːts/",
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"US"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "succedani"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "imitació"
},
{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "còpia"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàiyòngpǐn",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"word": "代用品"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "náhražka"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"word": "ersatz"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"word": "surrogaat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"word": "korvike"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ersatz"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sucedáneo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ersatz"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ypokatástato",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "υποκατάστατο"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"word": "tacair"
},
{
"alt": "だいようひん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "daiyōhin",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"word": "代用品"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "erstatning"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "erzac"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "imitação"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cópia"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "surrogát",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "суррога́т"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zamenítelʹ",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "замени́тель"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "erzác",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "эрза́ц"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "remedo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"word": "ersättning"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"word": "peke"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "erzác",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ерза́ц"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "surohát",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сурога́т"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zamínnyk",
"sense": "something made in imitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "замі́нник"
}
],
"word": "ersatz"
}
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