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"ref": "2019, Ira Trivedi, Sachin Bhatia, chapter 1, in The Desi Guide to Dating, Harper Collins",
"text": "While being friendzoned is not a problem, what can be a problem is if it's not clear to both people that ONLY friendship and nothing more is on offer.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To classify as a friend, without any possibility of a romantic relationship."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, transitive) To classify as a friend, without any possibility of a romantic relationship."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɹɛnd zəʊn/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɹɛnd zoʊn/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-friend zone.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/En-au-friend_zone.ogg/En-au-friend_zone.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/En-au-friend_zone.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "friendzone"
},
{
"word": "friend-zone"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to classify as a friend with no possibility of a romantic relationship",
"word": "發朋友卡"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to classify as a friend with no possibility of a romantic relationship",
"word": "发朋友卡"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to classify as a friend with no possibility of a romantic relationship",
"word": "luokitella kaverisektoriin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to classify as a friend with no possibility of a romantic relationship",
"word": "friendzoner"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to classify as a friend with no possibility of a romantic relationship",
"word": "friendzonare"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to classify as a friend with no possibility of a romantic relationship",
"word": "friendzonować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to classify as a friend with no possibility of a romantic relationship",
"word": "colocar/deixar na friendzone"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "frendzónitʹ",
"sense": "to classify as a friend with no possibility of a romantic relationship",
"word": "френдзо́нить"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Friends",
"The One with the Blackout"
],
"word": "friend zone"
}
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