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"sense": "towards home",
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"roman": "habáyta",
"sense": "towards home",
"word": "הביתה"
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"sense": "towards home",
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"sense": "towards home",
"word": "家へ向かって"
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"sense": "towards home",
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"sense": "towards home",
"word": "do domu"
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"word": "para casa"
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],
"glosses": [
"oriented towards home"
],
"links": [
[
"oriented",
"oriented"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhoʊmwɚd/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhəʊmwəd/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-homeward.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ae/En-us-homeward.ogg/En-us-homeward.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/En-us-homeward.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "oriented towards home",
"word": "kotiin menevä"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "napravljájuščijsja domój",
"sense": "oriented towards home",
"word": "направля́ющийся домо́й"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "k dómu",
"sense": "oriented towards home",
"word": "к до́му"
}
],
"word": "homeward"
}
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