"on the ladder" meaning in English

See on the ladder in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase

Audio: En-au-on the ladder.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} on the ladder, {{en-PP}} on the ladder
  1. (idiomatic, British) On a property ladder, owning property. Tags: British, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-on_the_ladder-en-prep_phrase-IHgOW9u5 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for on the ladder meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "on the ladder",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "on the ladder",
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When someone has bought their first house, they are said to have got on the ladder."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "On a property ladder, owning property."
      ],
      "id": "en-on_the_ladder-en-prep_phrase-IHgOW9u5",
      "links": [
        [
          "property ladder",
          "property ladder"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, British) On a property ladder, owning property."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-on the ladder.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f8/En-au-on_the_ladder.ogg/En-au-on_the_ladder.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/En-au-on_the_ladder.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "on the ladder"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "on the ladder",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "on the ladder",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English prepositional phrases",
        "English terms with audio links"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When someone has bought their first house, they are said to have got on the ladder."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "On a property ladder, owning property."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "property ladder",
          "property ladder"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, British) On a property ladder, owning property."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-on the ladder.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f8/En-au-on_the_ladder.ogg/En-au-on_the_ladder.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/En-au-on_the_ladder.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "on the ladder"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 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.

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.