"hard time" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hard times [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hard time (countable and uncountable, plural hard times)
  1. (colloquial, countable) Difficulties; a difficult time; trouble. Tags: colloquial, countable Categories (topical): Prison Derived forms: give someone a hard time, hard-times token Translations (difficulties): 艱難時期 (Chinese Mandarin), 艰难时期 (jiānnán shíqī) (Chinese Mandarin), 困難 (Chinese Mandarin), 困难 (kùnnan) (Chinese Mandarin), 受罪 (shòuzuì) (Chinese Mandarin), 麻煩 (Chinese Mandarin), 麻烦 (máfan) (Chinese Mandarin), hankaluudet [plural] (Finnish), vaikeudet [plural] (Finnish), problèmes [masculine, plural] (French), schwere Zeit (German), mal trago [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-hard_time-en-noun-3ZxSctjv Disambiguation of Prison: 75 25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 97 3 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 86 14 Disambiguation of 'difficulties': 100 0
  2. (colloquial, uncountable) A prison term. Tags: colloquial, uncountable
    Sense id: en-hard_time-en-noun-cHY5Hijt

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hard time meaning in English (3.9kB)

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      "sense": "difficulties",
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