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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"word": "ŝtata lernejo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"word": "yleinen koulu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"word": "peruskoulu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "école publique"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "öffentliche Schule"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dimósio scholeío",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "δημόσιο σχολείο"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "sala roth",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"word": "សាលារដ្ឋ"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "sala satheraknak",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"word": "សាលាសាធារណៈ"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "escola pública"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "școală publică"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"word": "paaralang bayan"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"word": "paaralang publiko"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "publicly administered school",
"word": "paaralang pampubliko"
}
],
"word": "public school"
}
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