See forecourt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for forecourt meaning in English (4.0kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fore",
"3": "court"
},
"expansion": "fore- + court",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "fore- + court",
"forms": [
{
"form": "forecourts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "forecourt (plural forecourts)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The area in front of a petrol station where the petrol pumps are situated; pumping area."
],
"id": "en-forecourt-en-noun-u2~Xegp-",
"links": [
[
"petrol station",
"petrol station"
],
[
"petrol pump",
"petrol pump"
],
[
"pumping",
"pumping"
],
[
"area",
"area"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly British) The area in front of a petrol station where the petrol pumps are situated; pumping area."
],
"tags": [
"British"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "60 31 9",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "area in front of a petrol station",
"word": "mittarikenttä"
},
{
"_dis1": "60 31 9",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "area in front of a petrol station",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Außenbereich"
},
{
"_dis1": "60 31 9",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "area in front of a petrol station",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Tankstellenaußenbereich"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007, Pamela Rose, The Meroitic Temple Complex at Qasr Ibrim, volume 84, page 105",
"text": "The first group is incised on the east wall and eastern part of the south wall of the temple forecourt. The second group is incised into the floor and paving stones of the forecourt, extending onto the pavement of the Podium.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 October, “New White Hart Lane station opens”, in Modern Railways, page 23",
"text": "Other improvements include a new station forecourt on Love Lane, new cycle parking, improved CCTV and an additional ticket vending machine in the ticket hall.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Any open area in front of a building."
],
"id": "en-forecourt-en-noun-fY01sB8W",
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly British) Any open area in front of a building."
],
"tags": [
"British"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "31 13 56",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "30 28 42",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with fore-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In racket sports, the front part of the court."
],
"id": "en-forecourt-en-noun-hrAgMHcz",
"links": [
[
"racket sport",
"racket sport"
]
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "44 53 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"word": "etupiha"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 53 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "parvis"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 53 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vorhof"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 53 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vorplatz"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 53 3",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "urlios"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 53 3",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vestibulum"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 53 3",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "jelôwxân",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"word": "جلوخان"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 53 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "átrio"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 53 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "atrio"
}
],
"word": "forecourt"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with fore-"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fore",
"3": "court"
},
"expansion": "fore- + court",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "fore- + court",
"forms": [
{
"form": "forecourts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "forecourt (plural forecourts)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"British English"
],
"glosses": [
"The area in front of a petrol station where the petrol pumps are situated; pumping area."
],
"links": [
[
"petrol station",
"petrol station"
],
[
"petrol pump",
"petrol pump"
],
[
"pumping",
"pumping"
],
[
"area",
"area"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly British) The area in front of a petrol station where the petrol pumps are situated; pumping area."
],
"tags": [
"British"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007, Pamela Rose, The Meroitic Temple Complex at Qasr Ibrim, volume 84, page 105",
"text": "The first group is incised on the east wall and eastern part of the south wall of the temple forecourt. The second group is incised into the floor and paving stones of the forecourt, extending onto the pavement of the Podium.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 October, “New White Hart Lane station opens”, in Modern Railways, page 23",
"text": "Other improvements include a new station forecourt on Love Lane, new cycle parking, improved CCTV and an additional ticket vending machine in the ticket hall.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Any open area in front of a building."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly British) Any open area in front of a building."
],
"tags": [
"British"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"In racket sports, the front part of the court."
],
"links": [
[
"racket sport",
"racket sport"
]
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "area in front of a petrol station",
"word": "mittarikenttä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "area in front of a petrol station",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Außenbereich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "area in front of a petrol station",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Tankstellenaußenbereich"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"word": "etupiha"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "parvis"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vorhof"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vorplatz"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "urlios"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vestibulum"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "jelôwxân",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"word": "جلوخان"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "átrio"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "open area in front of a building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "atrio"
}
],
"word": "forecourt"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 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.