See it's a small world in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "phrase"
},
"expansion": "it's a small world",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "phrase",
"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 Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Eastern Mari translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"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 Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the fifth (De Stancy and Paula), page 40:",
"text": "“I have met my young photographer,” said De Stancy, cheerily. “What a small world it is, as every busybody truly observes! I am wishing he could take some views for us as we go on; but you have no apparatus with you, I suppose, Mr. Dare?”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to express surprise at meeting an acquaintance or discovering a personal connection in a distant place or an unexpected context."
],
"id": "en-it's_a_small_world-en-phrase-~jOqYAf4",
"links": [
[
"surprise",
"surprise#English"
],
[
"acquaintance",
"acquaintance#English"
],
[
"connection",
"connection#English"
],
[
"distant",
"distant#English"
],
[
"unexpected",
"unexpected#English"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "small-world network"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "what a small world"
},
{
"word": "small world"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "el món és un mocador"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hǎo qiǎo",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "好巧"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "maailma on pieni"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "le monde est petit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "die Welt ist klein"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "wie klein die Welt ist"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "die Welt ist ein Dorf"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "kicsi a világ"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "il mondo è piccolo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "com'è piccolo il mondo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "come è piccolo il mondo"
},
{
"alt": "せけんはひろいようでせまい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "seken wa hiroi yō de semai",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "世間は広い様で狭い"
},
{
"alt": "せかいはせまい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sekai wa semai",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "世界は狭い"
},
{
"alt": "せけんはせまい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "seken wa semai",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "世間は狭い"
},
{
"code": "mhr",
"lang": "Eastern Mari",
"roman": "tüńa izi",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "тӱня изи"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "jaki ten świat mały"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "мир те́сен (mir tésen, literally “the world is narrow”)",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "el mundo es un pañuelo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "världen är liten"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "ang liit ng mundo"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"note": "яка Земля кругла (jaka Zemlja kruhla, literally “how round is the Earth”)",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context"
}
]
}
],
"word": "it's a small world"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "phrase"
},
"expansion": "it's a small world",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "phrase",
"related": [
{
"word": "small-world network"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrases",
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Eastern Mari translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the fifth (De Stancy and Paula), page 40:",
"text": "“I have met my young photographer,” said De Stancy, cheerily. “What a small world it is, as every busybody truly observes! I am wishing he could take some views for us as we go on; but you have no apparatus with you, I suppose, Mr. Dare?”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to express surprise at meeting an acquaintance or discovering a personal connection in a distant place or an unexpected context."
],
"links": [
[
"surprise",
"surprise#English"
],
[
"acquaintance",
"acquaintance#English"
],
[
"connection",
"connection#English"
],
[
"distant",
"distant#English"
],
[
"unexpected",
"unexpected#English"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "what a small world"
},
{
"word": "small world"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "el món és un mocador"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hǎo qiǎo",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "好巧"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "maailma on pieni"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "le monde est petit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "die Welt ist klein"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "wie klein die Welt ist"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "die Welt ist ein Dorf"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "kicsi a világ"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "il mondo è piccolo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "com'è piccolo il mondo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "come è piccolo il mondo"
},
{
"alt": "せけんはひろいようでせまい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "seken wa hiroi yō de semai",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "世間は広い様で狭い"
},
{
"alt": "せかいはせまい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sekai wa semai",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "世界は狭い"
},
{
"alt": "せけんはせまい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "seken wa semai",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "世間は狭い"
},
{
"code": "mhr",
"lang": "Eastern Mari",
"roman": "tüńa izi",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "тӱня изи"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "jaki ten świat mały"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "мир те́сен (mir tésen, literally “the world is narrow”)",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "el mundo es un pañuelo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "världen är liten"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context",
"word": "ang liit ng mundo"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"note": "яка Земля кругла (jaka Zemlja kruhla, literally “how round is the Earth”)",
"sense": "phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context"
}
],
"word": "it's a small world"
}
Download raw JSONL data for it's a small world meaning in English (6.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.