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"audio": "en-au-marginal.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/En-au-marginal.ogg/En-au-marginal.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/En-au-marginal.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "marginal",
"sense": "something that is marginal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "маргинал"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something that is marginal",
"word": "marginaali"
}
],
"word": "marginal"
}
{
"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''Of, relating to, or located at'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"marginal"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "marginal",
"trace": ""
}
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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