See holy fool in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "holy fools",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "holy fool (plural holy fools)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Eastern Orthodoxy",
"orig": "en:Eastern Orthodoxy",
"parents": [
"Orthodoxy",
"Christianity",
"Abrahamism",
"Religion",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person, often associated with gifts of prophecy and insight, who publicly acts as if mad or stupid, but whose madness is seen as concealing an inner sanctity for the purpose of self-humiliation."
],
"id": "en-holy_fool-en-noun-SM1lNW52",
"links": [
[
"Eastern Orthodoxy",
"Eastern Orthodoxy"
],
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"prophecy",
"prophecy"
],
[
"insight",
"insight"
],
[
"publicly",
"publicly"
],
[
"act",
"act"
],
[
"mad",
"mad"
],
[
"stupid",
"stupid"
],
[
"madness",
"madness"
],
[
"conceal",
"conceal"
],
[
"sanctity",
"sanctity"
],
[
"humiliation",
"humiliation"
]
],
"qualifier": "chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy",
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) A person, often associated with gifts of prophecy and insight, who publicly acts as if mad or stupid, but whose madness is seen as concealing an inner sanctity for the purpose of self-humiliation."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "fool-saint"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fool for Christ"
},
{
"word": "yurodivy"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fol-en-Christ"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Jurodiwy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jurodiwyj"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"word": "louco por Cristo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "juródivyj",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "юро́дивый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blažénnyj",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "блаже́нный"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Foolishness for Christ"
]
}
],
"word": "holy fool"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "holy fools",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "holy fool (plural holy fools)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "fool-saint"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"en:Eastern Orthodoxy"
],
"glosses": [
"A person, often associated with gifts of prophecy and insight, who publicly acts as if mad or stupid, but whose madness is seen as concealing an inner sanctity for the purpose of self-humiliation."
],
"links": [
[
"Eastern Orthodoxy",
"Eastern Orthodoxy"
],
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"prophecy",
"prophecy"
],
[
"insight",
"insight"
],
[
"publicly",
"publicly"
],
[
"act",
"act"
],
[
"mad",
"mad"
],
[
"stupid",
"stupid"
],
[
"madness",
"madness"
],
[
"conceal",
"conceal"
],
[
"sanctity",
"sanctity"
],
[
"humiliation",
"humiliation"
]
],
"qualifier": "chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy",
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) A person, often associated with gifts of prophecy and insight, who publicly acts as if mad or stupid, but whose madness is seen as concealing an inner sanctity for the purpose of self-humiliation."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fool for Christ"
},
{
"word": "yurodivy"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Foolishness for Christ"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fol-en-Christ"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Jurodiwy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jurodiwyj"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"word": "louco por Cristo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "juródivyj",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "юро́дивый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blažénnyj",
"sense": "person who publicly acts as if mad or stupid for self-humilitation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "блаже́нный"
}
],
"word": "holy fool"
}
Download raw JSONL data for holy fool meaning in English (2.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). 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.