See privy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Arconum—I found two chairs wanting in the gentlemen's room, and the bath room attached applied to other purposes... the privies and urinaries clean..."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation."
],
"links": [
[
"toilet",
"toilet"
],
[
"fixture",
"fixture"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"urination",
"urination"
],
[
"defecation",
"defecation"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Law"
],
"glosses": [
"A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party."
],
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"partaker",
"partaker"
],
[
"interest",
"interest"
],
[
"action",
"action"
],
[
"contract",
"contract"
],
[
"party",
"party"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party."
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɪvi/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-privy.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/66/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-privy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-privy.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/66/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-privy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-privy.wav.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-privy.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/38/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-privy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-privy.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/38/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-privy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-privy.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪvi"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "latrine, outhouse, or lavatory",
"word": "bathroom"
},
{
"sense": "fixture",
"word": "toilet"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"english": "zainteresovano lice",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"sense": "a partaker",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "заинтересовано лице"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a partaker",
"word": "intressitaho"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a partaker",
"word": "érdektárs"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a partaker",
"word": "torohē"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a partaker",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "uczestnik"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a partaker",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "uczestniczka"
}
],
"word": "privy"
}
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