"lucubrate" meaning in English

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      "word": "lucubrated"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin lūcubrātus, perfect passive participle of lūcubrō (“work by candlelight”), from lūx (“light”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lucubrates",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "lucubrating",
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      "form": "lucubrated",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "elucubrate"
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      "word": "lucubration"
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      "word": "lucubratist"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "lucubrator"
    },
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      "word": "lucubratory"
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        {
          "ref": "December 1991, K. Boo, “The organization woman”, in The Washington Monthly, volume 23, number 12, page 44:",
          "text": "Instead, as Oklahoma’s tenure committee lucubrated over Hill’s future, […]",
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        "To work diligently by artificial light; to study at night."
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          "study"
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          "night"
        ]
      ],
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        "(rare) To work diligently by artificial light; to study at night."
      ],
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          "sense": "work diligently by artificial light; to study at night",
          "word": "pernocter"
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          "sense": "work diligently by artificial light; to study at night",
          "word": "veiller en travaillant"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "keisetsu no kou wo tsumu",
          "sense": "work diligently by artificial light; to study at night",
          "word": "蛍雪の功を積む"
        },
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "work diligently by artificial light; to study at night",
          "word": "lūcūbrō"
        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "rabótatʹ nóčʹju",
          "sense": "work diligently by artificial light; to study at night",
          "word": "рабо́тать но́чью"
        }
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        {
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          "_dis": "17 83",
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          "text": "1846, Nathaniel Chipman, in Daniel Chipman, The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL.D., p. 261,\n[…] I shall not hesitate to repeat some of my former thoughts, when lucubrating upon the same subject.",
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        "To work or write like a scholar."
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          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "usérdno trudítʹsja",
          "sense": "work or write like a scholar",
          "word": "усе́рдно труди́ться"
        }
      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "burn the midnight oil"
    },
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      "word": "elucubrate"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pull an all-nighter"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lucubrate"
}

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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "lucubrating",
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      "form": "lucubrated",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "lucubration"
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      "word": "lucubratist"
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        "English terms with rare senses"
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        "(rare) To work diligently by artificial light; to study at night."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "burn the midnight oil"
    },
    {
      "word": "elucubrate"
    },
    {
      "word": "pull an all-nighter"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "work diligently by artificial light; to study at night",
      "word": "pernocter"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "work diligently by artificial light; to study at night",
      "word": "veiller en travaillant"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "keisetsu no kou wo tsumu",
      "sense": "work diligently by artificial light; to study at night",
      "word": "蛍雪の功を積む"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "work diligently by artificial light; to study at night",
      "word": "lūcūbrō"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rabótatʹ nóčʹju",
      "sense": "work diligently by artificial light; to study at night",
      "word": "рабо́тать но́чью"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "usérdno trudítʹsja",
      "sense": "work or write like a scholar",
      "word": "усе́рдно труди́ться"
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  "word": "lucubrate"
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