"fig-leaf" meaning in English

See fig-leaf in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: fig-leaves [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|fig-leaves}} fig-leaf (plural fig-leaves)
  1. Alternative spelling of fig leaf Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: fig leaf
    Sense id: en-fig-leaf-en-noun-pjC4flnn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fig-leaf meaning in English (0.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fig-leaves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fig-leaves"
      },
      "expansion": "fig-leaf (plural fig-leaves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "fig leaf"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of fig leaf"
      ],
      "id": "en-fig-leaf-en-noun-pjC4flnn",
      "links": [
        [
          "fig leaf",
          "fig leaf#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fig-leaf"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fig-leaves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fig-leaves"
      },
      "expansion": "fig-leaf (plural fig-leaves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "fig leaf"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of fig leaf"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fig leaf",
          "fig leaf#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fig-leaf"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.