"sele" meaning in English

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "hay season",
      "word": "haysel"
    }
  ],
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        "t": "happiness, good fortune, bliss; an occasion, period of time"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "sǣl",
        "t": "time, occasion, an opportune time, opportunity, happiness, prosperity, good times"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, an opportune time, opportunity, happiness, prosperity, good times”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*sālī"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *sālī",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*sēliz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *sēliz",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English sele (“happiness, good fortune, bliss; an occasion, period of time”), from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, an opportune time, opportunity, happiness, prosperity, good times”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz. Related to silly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "seles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "silly"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "95 5 0",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Happiness",
          "orig": "en:Happiness",
          "parents": [
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            "Human",
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            "Fundamental"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Happiness, fortune."
      ],
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        [
          "fortune",
          "fortune"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or dialectal) Happiness, fortune."
      ],
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        "dialectal",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season"
      ],
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          "opportune",
          "opportune"
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          "season",
          "season"
        ]
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        "(obsolete or dialectal, British) The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season"
      ],
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        "British",
        "countable",
        "dialectal",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery (Fiction), Read Central, archived from the original on 2013-10-31:",
          "text": "I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245:",
          "text": "When the morning was come […] so she arose and thrust her grief back into her heart, and gave her fellow-farer the sele of the day, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Greeting, salutation."
      ],
      "id": "en-sele-en-noun-KVfLEii9",
      "links": [
        [
          "Greeting",
          "greeting"
        ],
        [
          "salutation",
          "salutation"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/siːl/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "seal"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sele"
}

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    "English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
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    {
      "english": "hay season",
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    }
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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        "3": "*sēliz"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English sele (“happiness, good fortune, bliss; an occasion, period of time”), from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, an opportune time, opportunity, happiness, prosperity, good times”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz. Related to silly.",
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    {
      "form": "seles",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "silly"
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  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Happiness, fortune."
      ],
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        [
          "Happiness",
          "happiness"
        ],
        [
          "fortune",
          "fortune"
        ]
      ],
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        "(obsolete or dialectal) Happiness, fortune."
      ],
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        "dialectal",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season"
      ],
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          "opportune"
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        [
          "season",
          "season"
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        "(obsolete or dialectal, British) The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season"
      ],
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        "obsolete",
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        {
          "ref": "1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery (Fiction), Read Central, archived from the original on 2013-10-31:",
          "text": "I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245:",
          "text": "When the morning was come […] so she arose and thrust her grief back into her heart, and gave her fellow-farer the sele of the day, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Greeting, salutation."
      ],
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        [
          "Greeting",
          "greeting"
        ],
        [
          "salutation",
          "salutation"
        ]
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/siːl/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "seal"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sele"
}