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"sense": "individual meanings of words",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "сема̀нтика"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "individual meanings of words",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "semàntika"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "individual meanings of words",
"word": "anlam"
},
{
"alt": "語義",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "individual meanings of words",
"word": "ngữ nghĩa"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "individual meanings of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "semantike"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "individual meanings of words",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sinifiance"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"semantics"
],
"word": "semantics"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 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.
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