"like Blackpool Illuminations" meaning in English

See like Blackpool Illuminations in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase

Etymology: In reference to Blackpool Illuminations, an annual festival of light founded in 1879. Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=like Blackpool Illuminations}} like Blackpool Illuminations, {{en-PP|head=like Blackpool Illuminations}} like Blackpool Illuminations
  1. (informal, British, simile) Very brightly lit. Wikipedia link: Blackpool Illuminations Tags: British, informal

Download JSON data for like Blackpool Illuminations meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to Blackpool Illuminations, an annual festival of light founded in 1879.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": "like Blackpool Illuminations"
      },
      "expansion": "like Blackpool Illuminations",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "like Blackpool Illuminations"
      },
      "expansion": "like Blackpool Illuminations",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "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 entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English similes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Turn all those lights off. It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very brightly lit."
      ],
      "id": "en-like_Blackpool_Illuminations-en-prep_phrase-5lQEMhCV",
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, British, simile) Very brightly lit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "informal"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Blackpool Illuminations"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "like Blackpool Illuminations"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to Blackpool Illuminations, an annual festival of light founded in 1879.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": "like Blackpool Illuminations"
      },
      "expansion": "like Blackpool Illuminations",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "like Blackpool Illuminations"
      },
      "expansion": "like Blackpool Illuminations",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English prepositional phrases",
        "English similes",
        "English terms derived from toponyms",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Turn all those lights off. It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very brightly lit."
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, British, simile) Very brightly lit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "informal"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Blackpool Illuminations"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "like Blackpool Illuminations"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). 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.