See less and less in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "determiner",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "less and less",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "less and less",
"name": "en-det"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "det",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English determiners",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English reduplicated coordinated pairs",
"parents": [
"Reduplicated coordinated pairs",
"Coordinated pairs",
"Reduplications",
"Terms by etymology"
],
"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 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 Interlingua translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Volapük translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Over the years, there has been less and less oil available.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"increasingly less"
],
"id": "en-less_and_less-en-det-CrMwBk3u",
"links": [
[
"increasingly",
"increasingly"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "cada vegada menys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "de moins en moins"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "immer weniger"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "egyre kevesebb/kevesebbet/kevésbé/kevesebbszer"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "de minus in minus"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "cata vice minus"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "minus e minus"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "ai neplu"
}
]
}
],
"word": "less and less"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "determiner",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "less and less",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "less and less",
"name": "en-det"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "det",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English determiners",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English reduplicated coordinated pairs",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Interlingua translations",
"Terms with Volapük translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Over the years, there has been less and less oil available.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"increasingly less"
],
"links": [
[
"increasingly",
"increasingly"
]
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "cada vegada menys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "de moins en moins"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "immer weniger"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "egyre kevesebb/kevesebbet/kevésbé/kevesebbszer"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "de minus in minus"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "cata vice minus"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "minus e minus"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "increasingly less",
"word": "ai neplu"
}
],
"word": "less and less"
}
Download raw JSONL data for less and less meaning in English (1.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (e4a2c88 and 4230888). 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.