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"The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note."
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"roman": "ʔahammiyya",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "أَهَمِّيَّة"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "əhəmiyyət"
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"roman": "əhəmiət",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "әһәмиәт"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
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"feminine"
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"roman": "zhòngyào",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "重要"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "důležitost"
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"word": "vigtighed"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "belangrijkheid"
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"word": "graveco"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "painoarvo"
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"feminine"
],
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "importancia"
},
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"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mnišvneloba",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "მნიშვნელობა"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Wichtigkeit"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "enpòtans"
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"roman": "ahmiyat",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "अहमियत"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "fontosság"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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"word": "mikilvægi"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tábhacht"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "importanza"
},
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "重要性"
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"roman": "taisetsusa",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "大切さ"
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"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "sarsaamkhan",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "សារៈសំខាន់"
},
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"code": "ckb",
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"roman": "gringî",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "گرنگی"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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"word": "momentum"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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"word": "svarīgums"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nozimība"
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "važnost",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "важност"
},
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"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "prādhānyaṁ",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "പ്രാധാന്യം"
},
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "hiranga"
},
{
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "mahurangi"
},
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "importància"
},
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"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "ahammiyyat",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "اهمیت"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ważność"
},
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "doniosłość"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "importância"
},
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "importanță"
},
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "însemnătate"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vážnostʹ",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "ва́жность"
},
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"roman": "znáčimostʹ",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "зна́чимость"
},
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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"word": "cudrom"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "ва́жно̄ст"
},
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
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"word": "зна̏ча̄ј"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
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"word": "зна́че̄ње"
},
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
],
"word": "vážnōst"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
],
"word": "znȁčāj"
},
{
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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"neuter"
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"word": "znáčēnje"
},
{
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "importancia"
},
{
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"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "umuhimu"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
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},
{
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
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},
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"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "mukkiyattuvam",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "முக்கியத்துவம்"
},
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"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "gal gnad",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "གལ་གནད"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "gtsigs",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "གཙིགས"
},
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"english": "'gangs",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "འགངས"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 1 3 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "önem"
},
{
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "ehemmiyet"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "važlývistʹ",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "важли́вість"
},
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"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "اہمیت"
},
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"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "ahamiyat"
},
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"code": "yi",
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"roman": "vikhtikeyt",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "וויכטיקייט"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
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"significance or prominence."
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "značénie",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
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"word": "значе́ние"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhòngyào",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "重要"
},
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "tähtsus"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "tärkeys"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wichtigkeit"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "simasía",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "σημασία"
},
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tábhacht"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
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"word": "importanza"
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"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "重要性"
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"roman": "taisetsusa",
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"word": "大切さ"
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"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "گرنگی"
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"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
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"word": "svarīgums"
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nozimība"
},
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"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "prādhānyaṁ",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "പ്രാധാന്യം"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "hiranga"
},
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"roman": "ahammiyyat",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "اهمیت"
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"tags": [
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"word": "importância"
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"word": "cudrom"
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"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "umuhimu"
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],
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"word": "əhəmiyyət"
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "әһәмиәт"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vážnost",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ва́жност"
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{
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "importància"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "重要"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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"code": "da",
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"tags": [
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"code": "eo",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "tärkeys"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "painoarvo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "importance"
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{
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "ka",
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"roman": "mnišvneloba",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "მნიშვნელობა"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wichtigkeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Belang"
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{
"code": "ht",
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"word": "enpòtans"
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{
"code": "hi",
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"roman": "ahmiyat",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "अहमियत"
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "ga",
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"tags": [
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{
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{
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "សារៈសំខាន់"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
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{
"code": "la",
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"tags": [
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],
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},
{
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "mk",
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"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "ml",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "പ്രാധാന്യം"
},
{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "hiranga"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "ahammiyyat",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "اهمیت"
},
{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "importância"
},
{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "ва́жность"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "зна́чимость"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
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"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "зна́че̄ње"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "vážnōst"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
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"neuter"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
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},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "umuhimu"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
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},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "betydelse"
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{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "mukkiyattuvam",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "முக்கியத்துவம்"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "gal gnad",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "གལ་གནད"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "gtsigs",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "གཙིགས"
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{
"code": "bo",
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"lang": "Tibetan",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "འགངས"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "önem"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "ehemmiyet"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "važlývistʹ",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "важли́вість"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "اہمیت"
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{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"word": "ahamiyat"
},
{
"code": "yi",
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"roman": "vikhtikeyt",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "וויכטיקייט"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"class-15"
],
"word": "ukubaluleka"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "quality or condition of being important or worthy of note",
"tags": [
"class-14"
],
"word": "ubukhulu"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "značénie",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "значе́ние"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhòngyào",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "重要"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "tähtsus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "tärkeys"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wichtigkeit"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "simasía",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "σημασία"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tábhacht"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "importanza"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jyūyōsei",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
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{
"code": "ja",
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"word": "大切さ"
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{
"code": "ckb",
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"roman": "gringî",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "گرنگی"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "svarīgums"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nozimība"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "prādhānyaṁ",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "പ്രാധാന്യം"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "hiranga"
},
{
"code": "fa",
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"roman": "ahammiyyat",
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"word": "اهمیت"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "importância"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "importanță"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cudrom"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "зна́че̄ње"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "зна̏ча̄ј"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "ва́жно̄ст"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "znáčēnje"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "znȁčāj"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "vážnōst"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "umuhimu"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vikt"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "gal gnad",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "གལ་གནད"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "gtsigs",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "གཙིགས"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"english": "'gangs",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"word": "འགངས"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "vikhtikeyt",
"sense": "significance or prominence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "וויכטיקייט"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "meisei",
"sense": "personal status or standing",
"word": "名声"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "personal status or standing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "svarīgums"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "personal status or standing",
"word": "mahurangi"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "personal status or standing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "status"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "personal status or standing",
"word": "umuhimu"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "personal status or standing",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ställning"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "go 'phang",
"sense": "personal status or standing",
"word": "གོ་འཕང"
}
],
"word": "importance"
}
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