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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1891, Littell’s Living Age, volume 191, page 260",
"text": "In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cheer (someone or something) with a huzzah sound."
],
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
],
[
"cheer",
"cheer#Verb"
],
[
"huzzah",
"huzzah#Interjection"
],
[
"sound",
"sound#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive) To cheer (someone or something) with a huzzah sound."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/həˈzɑː/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-huzzah.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/En-us-huzzah.ogg/En-us-huzzah.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/En-us-huzzah.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-huzzah.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b6/En-uk-huzzah.ogg/En-uk-huzzah.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/En-uk-huzzah.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "huzza"
}
],
"word": "huzzah"
}
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