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"text": "Anyone have any weird landmarks they often remember seeing along roads in the olden days?",
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"word": "տեսարժան վայր"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zabeležitelnost",
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"word": "забележителност"
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"sense": "notable location",
"word": "名勝古蹟"
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"roman": "míngshènggǔjī",
"sense": "notable location",
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"word": "merkkipaikka"
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"text": "an important landmark in human history",
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"text": "a landmark paper in neurosurgery",
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"ref": "2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport",
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English *landmark, from Old English landmearc (“boundary”), from Proto-West Germanic *landamarku (“boundary, landmark”). Equivalent to land + mark. Cognate with German Landmarke (“landmark”), Danish landemærke (“landmark”), Swedish landmärke (“landmark”), Norwegian landemerke (“landmark”) and Faroese landamark (“land frontier”). Compare also Middle English londes-mark (“boundary”).",
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{
"form": "landmarks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "landmarking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "landmarked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "landmarked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007 March 25, Jeff Vandam, “Preservationists’ Rallying Cry”, in New York Times",
"text": "“Permitted demolition or stripping rarely occurs on landmarked buildings,” she said. Ms. de Bourbon also noted that the city already requires the Buildings Department to hold permits for 40 days for “calendared” properties — those currently under landmarks consideration — so the commission has a chance to designate them.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To officially designate a site or building as a landmark."
],
"links": [
[
"designate",
"designate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US) To officially designate a site or building as a landmark."
],
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"US"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈlændmɑɹk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"word": "land-mark"
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{
"word": "land mark"
}
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