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"feminine"
],
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"word": "회상"
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"sense": "act of recalling to the memory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "recordatio"
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"sense": "act of recalling to the memory",
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"sense": "act of recalling to the memory",
"word": "wspomnienia"
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"sense": "act of recalling to the memory",
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],
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"sense": "act of recalling to the memory",
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"word": "reamintire"
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"text": "Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.",
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"tags": [
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"sense": "power of recalling ideas to the mind",
"word": "muisti"
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"roman": "anámnisi",
"sense": "power of recalling ideas to the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ανάμνηση"
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"sense": "power of recalling ideas to the mind",
"word": "emlékezet"
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"code": "la",
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"word": "recordatio"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "power of recalling ideas to the mind",
"word": "mahara"
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{
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "power of recalling ideas to the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"sense": "power of recalling ideas to the mind",
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"feminine",
"plural"
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"sense": "power of recalling ideas to the mind",
"word": "amintire"
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"roman": "sosredotóčennostʹ",
"sense": "power of recalling ideas to the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сосредото́ченность"
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"feminine"
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"text": "One of his earliest recollections.\n- Thomas Babington Macaulay",
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"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
"word": "lethe"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
"word": "misrecollection"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
"word": "forgetfulness"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
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],
"word": "forgetness"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
"word": "oblivion"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
"word": "obliviousness"
}
],
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English heteronyms",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with re-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns"
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"name": "prefix"
}
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"tags": [
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]
}
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"pos": "noun",
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{
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"Process of collecting again."
],
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"collect"
]
],
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"uncountable"
]
}
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},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
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{
"word": "re-collection"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
"word": "memory"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
"word": "mind"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
"word": "recall"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
"word": "recollection"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
"word": "remembrance"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:recollection",
"word": "reminiscence"
}
],
"word": "recollection"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c 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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