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"text": "There are the books full of Underground ghost stories. An invisible runner pounds along the platforms at Elephant & Castle; children scream in the basement of what used to be the surface building of Hyde Park Corner, [...]",
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "història de fantasmes"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guǐgùshì",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "鬼故事"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "kummitusjuttu"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "histoire de fantômes"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gespenstergeschichte"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "kísértethistória"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scéal taibhsí"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "racconto dell'orrore"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "goedam",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "괴담"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "spøkelsesfortelling"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "história de fantasmas"
},
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "historia de fantasmas"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "cuento de fantasmas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "spökhistoria"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stori fwgan"
},
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
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"feminine"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "història de fantasmes"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guǐgùshì",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "鬼故事"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "kummitusjuttu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "histoire de fantômes"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gespenstergeschichte"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "kísértethistória"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scéal taibhsí"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "racconto dell'orrore"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "goedam",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "괴담"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "spøkelsesfortelling"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "história de fantasmas"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "historia de fantasmas"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cuento de fantasmas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"word": "spökhistoria"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "story about ghosts",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stori fwgan"
},
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"code": "cy",
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"sense": "story about ghosts",
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