"lias" meaning in English

See lias in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈliəs/ [UK, US]
Rhymes: -iəs Etymology: Originally dialectal, from Old French liois (“compact limestone”) (French liais). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fro|liois||compact limestone}} Old French liois (“compact limestone”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} lias (uncountable)
  1. A type of blue limestone present in parts of southern England and Wales. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Rocks
    Sense id: en-lias-en-noun-cf0ir9n~ Disambiguation of Rocks: 70 30 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 84 16 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 84 16 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 86 14
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Lias Tags: alt-of, uncountable Alternative form of: Lias
    Sense id: en-lias-en-noun-dTCvUMUq

Download JSON data for lias meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "liois",
        "4": "",
        "5": "compact limestone"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French liois (“compact limestone”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Originally dialectal, from Old French liois (“compact limestone”) (French liais).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "lias (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rocks",
          "orig": "en:Rocks",
          "parents": [
            "Geology",
            "Natural materials",
            "Earth sciences",
            "Materials",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences",
            "Manufacturing",
            "All topics",
            "Human activity",
            "Fundamental",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of blue limestone present in parts of southern England and Wales."
      ],
      "id": "en-lias-en-noun-cf0ir9n~",
      "links": [
        [
          "limestone",
          "limestone"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Lias"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Lias"
      ],
      "id": "en-lias-en-noun-dTCvUMUq",
      "links": [
        [
          "Lias",
          "Lias#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈliəs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iəs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lias"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "Rhymes:English/iəs",
    "Rhymes:English/iəs/1 syllable",
    "en:Rocks"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "liois",
        "4": "",
        "5": "compact limestone"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French liois (“compact limestone”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Originally dialectal, from Old French liois (“compact limestone”) (French liais).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "lias (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A type of blue limestone present in parts of southern England and Wales."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "limestone",
          "limestone"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Lias"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Lias"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Lias",
          "Lias#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈliəs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iəs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lias"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). 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.