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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "attention or notice",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "destaque"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "attention or notice",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ribalta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "centr vnimánija",
"sense": "attention or notice",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "центр внима́ния"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "attention or notice",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "rampljus"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"limelight"
],
"word": "limelight"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lime",
"3": "light"
},
"expansion": "lime + light",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "lime + light",
"forms": [
{
"form": "limelights",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "limelighting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "limelighted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "limelighted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "limelit",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "limelit",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {
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},
"expansion": "limelight (third-person singular simple present limelights, present participle limelighting, simple past and past participle limelighted or limelit)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "public eye"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to illuminate with limelight"
],
"links": [
[
"illuminate",
"illuminate"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlaɪm.laɪt/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-limelight.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/ff/En-us-limelight.ogg/En-us-limelight.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/En-us-limelight.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"limelight"
],
"word": "limelight"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.
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