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{
"etymology_text": "Ships would declare, by hailing, the port from which they sailed or in which they were registered.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hails from",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "hailing from",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "hailed from",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "hailed from",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "hail from (third-person singular simple present hails from, present participle hailing from, simple past and past participle hailed from)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (from)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1998, August 23; the episode Lard of the Dance (wikiquote) from the tenth season\n[Willie] Saints be praised. I'm from Scotland! Where do ya hail from?\n[Homer] Uh, North... Kilt-town."
},
{
"text": "My niece speaks French but she hails from Hampshire."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be a native of, to come from, to originate from; to have as one's birth place or residence."
],
"id": "en-hail_from-en-verb-4EmYropV",
"links": [
[
"native",
"native"
],
[
"come from",
"come from"
],
[
"originate",
"originate"
],
[
"residence",
"residence"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "afkomstig zijn van"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "afstammen van"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "olla kotoisin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katágomai",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "κατάγομαι"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "vera frá"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "koma frá"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "venire"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"note": "followed by di",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "essere originario"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "potéknuva",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "поте́кнува"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "vir de"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "proisxodítʹ",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "происходи́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "proizojtí",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "произойти́"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "потицати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "poticati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "ser oriundo de"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "proceder de"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "bördig"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "dolu"
}
]
}
],
"word": "hail from"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Ships would declare, by hailing, the port from which they sailed or in which they were registered.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hails from",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "hailing from",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "hailed from",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "hailed from",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "hail from (third-person singular simple present hails from, present participle hailing from, simple past and past participle hailed from)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs with particle (from)",
"English verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1998, August 23; the episode Lard of the Dance (wikiquote) from the tenth season\n[Willie] Saints be praised. I'm from Scotland! Where do ya hail from?\n[Homer] Uh, North... Kilt-town."
},
{
"text": "My niece speaks French but she hails from Hampshire."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be a native of, to come from, to originate from; to have as one's birth place or residence."
],
"links": [
[
"native",
"native"
],
[
"come from",
"come from"
],
[
"originate",
"originate"
],
[
"residence",
"residence"
]
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "afkomstig zijn van"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "afstammen van"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "olla kotoisin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katágomai",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "κατάγομαι"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "vera frá"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "koma frá"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "venire"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"note": "followed by di",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "essere originario"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "potéknuva",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "поте́кнува"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "vir de"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "proisxodítʹ",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "происходи́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "proizojtí",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "произойти́"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "потицати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "poticati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "ser oriundo de"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "proceder de"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "bördig"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to be a native of",
"word": "dolu"
}
],
"word": "hail from"
}
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