"meditation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mɛdɪˈteɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-meditation.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-meditation.wav Forms: meditations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|meditacion}} Old French meditacion, {{der|en|la|meditatio}} Latin meditatio, {{der|en|ine-pro|*med-||to measure, limit, consider, advise}} Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} meditation (countable and uncountable, plural meditations)
  1. A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Religion Translations (devotional contemplation): μελετήματα (meletḗmata) (Ancient Greek), διαλογισμός (dialogismós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), σύννοια (súnnoia) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), meditación [feminine] (Asturian), размишление (razmišlenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), meditació [feminine] (Catalan), 冥想 (míngxiǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), 沈思 (chénsī) (Chinese Mandarin), 沉思 (chénsī) (Chinese Mandarin), 禪定 [Buddhism, religion, lifestyle] (Chinese Mandarin), 禅定 (chándìng) (Chinese Mandarin), rozjímání [neuter] (Czech), meditace [feminine] (Czech), meditation [common-gender] (Danish), meditatie [feminine] (Dutch), meditado (Esperanto), mietiskely (Finnish), meditaatio (Finnish), méditation [feminine] (French), meditación [feminine] (Galician), Meditation [feminine] (German), περισυλλογή (perisyllogí) [feminine] (Greek), meditáció (Hungarian), meditasi (Indonesian), semadi (Indonesian), machnamh [masculine] (Irish), 冥想 (meisō) (alt: めいそう) (Japanese), 思索 (shisaku) (alt: しさく) (Japanese), 黙想 (mokusō) (alt: もくそう) (Japanese), толғаныс (tolğanys) (Kazakh), ឈាន (cʰien) (Khmer), ធ្យាន (tyien) (Khmer), បរិវិតក្ក (pa’re’vi’ta’ka’) (Khmer), បច្ចវេក្ខណៈ (pacca’veekkʰa’na’) (Khmer), 명상 (myeongsang) (alt: 冥想) (Korean), meditātiō [feminine] (Latin), meletemata (Latin), медитација (meditacija) [feminine] (Macedonian), ധ്യാനം (dhyānaṁ) (Malayalam), whakaaroarohanga (Maori), бясалгал (bjasalgal) (Mongolian), smēaþ [feminine] (Old English), خلسه (xalse) (Persian), مدیتیشن (mediteyšen) (Persian), medytacja [feminine] (Polish), meditação [feminine] (Portuguese), медита́ция (meditácija) [feminine] (Russian), ध्यान (dhyāna) [neuter] (Sanskrit), धी (dhī) [feminine] (Sanskrit), योग (yoga) (Sanskrit), समाधि (samādhi) (Sanskrit), ध्यानयोग (dhyānayoga) (Sanskrit), meditación [feminine] (Spanish), meditation [common-gender] (Swedish), སྒོམ (sgom) (Tibetan), ompalskoññe (Tocharian B), медита́ція (medytácija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), tĩnh lự (alt: 靜慮) (Vietnamese), tư duy tu (alt: 思維修) (Vietnamese), thiền định (alt: 禪定) [Buddhism, religion, lifestyle] (Vietnamese), chiêm niệm (alt: 瞻念) [Christianity] (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-meditation-en-noun-yaHmWhCD Disambiguation of Religion: 57 20 24 0 0 Disambiguation of 'devotional contemplation': 45 20 4 5 26
  2. Any of various types of achieving more or less altered states of consciousness, such as vacancy of mind or prolonged contemplation on a single sensation or thought, through relaxed or focused mental and physical activity generally of a nonstrenuous and non–substance-induced nature. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  3. A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Thinking Translations (contemplative discourse): медитация (meditacija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 沉思 (chénsī) (Chinese Mandarin), meditatie [feminine] (Dutch), overpeinzing [feminine] (Dutch), pohdinta (Finnish), pohdiskelu (Finnish), διαλογισμός (dialogismós) [masculine] (Greek), στοχασμός (stochasmós) [masculine] (Greek), elmélkedés (Hungarian), machnamh [masculine] (Irish), ചിന്ത (cinta) (Malayalam), medytacja [feminine] (Polish), медита́ция (meditácija) [feminine] (Russian), разду́мье (razdúmʹje) [neuter] (Russian), размышле́ние (razmyšlénije) [neuter] (Russian), ध्यान (dhyāna) (Sanskrit), समाधि (samādhi) (Sanskrit), चिन्ता (cintā) (Sanskrit)
    Sense id: en-meditation-en-noun-veREVn53 Disambiguation of Thinking: 12 31 39 11 7 Disambiguation of 'contemplative discourse': 2 9 77 7 5
  4. A musical theme treated in a meditative manner. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-meditation-en-noun-InVS35SU Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 4 22 14 55 4
  5. Careful and thorough thought. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: consideration
    Sense id: en-meditation-en-noun-0Q8D4yxp Categories (other): English terms with collocations
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: mass meditation, theta meditation, transcendental meditation Related terms: meditate, meditative, meditationist, meditativeness, premeditation, mentation

Inflected forms

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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
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          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "pacca’veekkʰa’na’",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "word": "បច្ចវេក្ខណៈ"
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          "alt": "冥想",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "myeongsang",
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          "code": "la",
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          "code": "la",
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          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
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          "roman": "meditacija",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
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        {
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          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "dhyānaṁ",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "word": "ധ്യാനം"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "word": "whakaaroarohanga"
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        {
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          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "bjasalgal",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "word": "бясалгал"
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          "code": "ang",
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          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
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          "word": "smēaþ"
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "xalse",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "word": "خلسه"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "45 20 4 5 26",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "mediteyšen",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "word": "مدیتیشن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "45 20 4 5 26",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "medytacja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "45 20 4 5 26",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "meditação"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "45 20 4 5 26",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "meditácija",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "медита́ция"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "45 20 4 5 26",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "dhyāna",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "ध्यान"
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          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "dhī",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "धी"
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        {
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          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "yoga",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "word": "योग"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "45 20 4 5 26",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "samādhi",
          "sense": "devotional contemplation",
          "word": "समाधि"
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "冥想"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chénsī",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "沈思"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "沉思"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chándìng",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "禅定"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "rozjímání"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "meditace"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "meditatie"
    },
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "meditado"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "mietiskely"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "meditaatio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "méditation"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "meditación"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Meditation"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "περισυλλογή"
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      "word": "μελετήματα"
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      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "meditáció"
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    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "meditasi"
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    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "semadi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "machnamh"
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    {
      "alt": "めいそう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "meisō",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "冥想"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しさく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "思索"
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "黙想"
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      "code": "kk",
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      "word": "толғаныс"
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "ឈាន"
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      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "tyien",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "ធ្យាន"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "pa’re’vi’ta’ka’",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "បរិវិតក្ក"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "pacca’veekkʰa’na’",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "បច្ចវេក្ខណៈ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "冥想",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "myeongsang",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "명상"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "meditātiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "meletemata"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "meditacija",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "медитација"
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      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "dhyānaṁ",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "ധ്യാനം"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "whakaaroarohanga"
    },
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      "code": "mn",
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      "roman": "bjasalgal",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "бясалгал"
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      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "smēaþ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "xalse",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "خلسه"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mediteyšen",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "مدیتیشن"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "medytacja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "meditação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "meditácija",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "медита́ция"
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
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      "code": "sa",
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
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      "word": "धी"
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      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
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      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "སྒོམ"
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "ompalskoññe"
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      "alt": "靜慮",
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      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "tĩnh lự"
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      "alt": "思維修",
      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "word": "tư duy tu"
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      "alt": "禪定",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "topics": [
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        "religion",
        "lifestyle"
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      "word": "thiền định"
    },
    {
      "alt": "瞻念",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "devotional contemplation",
      "topics": [
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      "word": "chiêm niệm"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "meditacija",
      "sense": "contemplative discourse",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "медитация"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chénsī",
      "sense": "contemplative discourse",
      "word": "沉思"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "contemplative discourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "meditatie"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "contemplative discourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "overpeinzing"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "contemplative discourse",
      "word": "pohdinta"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "contemplative discourse",
      "word": "pohdiskelu"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "dialogismós",
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      "code": "el",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "contemplative discourse",
      "word": "elmélkedés"
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    {
      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "contemplative discourse",
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      "word": "machnamh"
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      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "cinta",
      "sense": "contemplative discourse",
      "word": "ചിന്ത"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "code": "ru",
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