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"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "so-called dollar"
}
],
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"2": "so",
"3": "called"
},
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"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "so + called",
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},
"expansion": "so-called (not comparable)",
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
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{
"text": "the so-called Ising mode",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1988, Ingrid Coetzee, Gerhard-Mark Van der Waal, Conservation of Culture: Changing Context and Challenges",
"text": "Another Canadian example is that of the so-called Halfback Program initiated in the province of Ontario. With this scheme state lottery tickets with which no prizes are won retain 50% of the value of their initial cost […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Matty McEire, Looking for Sheville, Dog Ear Publishing, page 78",
"text": "... I hadn't met any straight women at the gay bars — a few so called \"fag hags\" fraternizing with the boys, of course, but ...",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"So named; commonly called."
],
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[
"name",
"name"
],
[
"commonly",
"commonly"
],
[
"call",
"call"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mā yusammā",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "مَا يُسَمَّى"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ayspes kočʻvac",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "այսպես կոչված"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "adlanan"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "tak zvány",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "так зва́ны"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "t.z.",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "т.з."
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "taká naréčen",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "така́ наре́чен"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "所謂"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "suǒwèi",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "所谓"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "takzvaný"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "såkaldt"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "zogenaamd"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "zgn."
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "zogeheten"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "zogenoemd"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "niin sanottu"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "niin kutsuttu"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "dénommé"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "sogenannt"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apokaloúmenos",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "αποκαλούμενος"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "legómenos",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "λεγόμενος"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nikrá kakh",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "נקרא כך"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "shenikrá kakh",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "שנקרא כך"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "kakh nikrá",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "כך נקרא"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "úgynevezett"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "cosiddetto"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"alt": "いわゆる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "iwayuru",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "所謂"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"alt": "所謂",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sowi",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "소위"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ireunba",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "이른바"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "nuncupativus"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "takanarečen",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "таканаречен"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "såkalt"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "tak zwany"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "tzw."
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "așa-numit"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "așa-zis"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tak nazyvájemyj",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "так называ́емый"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "t.n.",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "т.н."
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "so named",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "тако̀зва̄нӣ"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "so named",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "takòzvānī"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "takzvaný"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "tako imenovan"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "så kallad"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "zer ba'i",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "ཟེར་བའི"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "grag pa'i",
"sense": "so named",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "གྲག་པའི"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ces zer ba",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "ཅེས་ཟེར་བ"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ces bya ba",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "ཅེས་བྱ་བ"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "zhes bya ba",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "ཞེས་བྱ་བ"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ces bya zhing",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "ཅེས་བྱ་ཞིང"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ces bya ste",
"sense": "so named",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "ཅེས་བྱ་སྟེ"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "tak zványj",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "так зва́ний"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 11",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "t.z.",
"sense": "so named",
"word": "т.з."
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "ashtuquajtur"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ayspes kočʻvac",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "այսպես կոչված"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "dırnaqarası"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "tak zvány",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "так зва́ны"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "t.z.",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "т.з."
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "taká naréčen",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "така́ наре́чен"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "anomenat"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "dit"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "所謂嘅"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "so² wai⁶ ge³",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "所谓嘅"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "所謂"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "suǒwèi",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "所谓"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "takzvaný"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "såkaldt"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "zogenaamd"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "zgn."
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "nõndanimetatud"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "muka"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "niin sanottu"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "niin kutsuttu"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "soi-disant"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "prétendu"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "sogenannt"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "sog."
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apokaloúmenos",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "αποκαλούμενος"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "legómenos",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "λεγόμενος"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "díthen",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "δήθεν"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "legómenos",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "λεγόμενος"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "hoútō kaloúmenos",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "οὕτω καλούμενος"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "hoútō onomazómenos",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "οὕτω ὀνομαζόμενος"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "kiv’yakhól, k’vayaklhól",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "כביכול used as a conjunctive adverb"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "not an adjective"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "kahne ko",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "कहने को"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "bolne ko",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "बोलने को"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "úgynevezett"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "cosiddetto"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"alt": "いわゆる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "iwayuru",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "所謂"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"alt": "所謂",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sowi",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "소위"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ireunba",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "이른바"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "såkalt"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kazâyi",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "کذایی"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "tak zwany"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "tzw."
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "assim chamado"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "chamado"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "dito"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "suposto"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "așa-zis"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tak nazyvájemyj",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "так называ́емый"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "t.n.",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "т.н."
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "тако̀зва̄нӣ"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "takòzvānī"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "sd",
"lang": "Sindhi",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "نام نهاد"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "tako imenovan"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "llamado"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "så kallad"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "zer ba'i",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "ཟེར་བའི"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "grag pa'i",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "གྲག་པའི"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ces zer ba",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "ཅེས་ཟེར་བ"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ces bya ba",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "ཅེས་བྱ་བ"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "zhes bya ba",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "ཞེས་བྱ་བ"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 19",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ces bya zhing",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
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{
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"sense": "so named",
"word": "所谓"
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"word": "takzvaný"
},
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"code": "da",
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"word": "såkaldt"
},
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"word": "zogenaamd"
},
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"word": "zgn."
},
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "so named",
"word": "zogeheten"
},
{
"code": "nl",
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"word": "zogenoemd"
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"word": "niin kutsuttu"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "sogenannt"
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"sense": "so named",
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},
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"word": "λεγόμενος"
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"word": "נקרא כך"
},
{
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{
"code": "bo",
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"code": "bo",
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{
"code": "bo",
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},
{
"code": "bo",
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},
{
"code": "bo",
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"code": "uk",
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{
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{
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},
{
"code": "az",
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},
{
"code": "be",
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{
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"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "所謂嘅"
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{
"code": "yue",
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"roman": "so² wai⁶ ge³",
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"word": "所谓嘅"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"word": "所謂"
},
{
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"word": "takzvaný"
},
{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "såkaldt"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "zogenaamd"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "zgn."
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{
"code": "et",
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"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "nõndanimetatud"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "muka"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "niin sanottu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "niin kutsuttu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
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},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "prétendu"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"word": "sogenannt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "sog."
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{
"code": "el",
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{
"code": "grc",
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{
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{
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{
"code": "hi",
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"word": "बोलने को"
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
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{
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{
"code": "pl",
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{
"code": "pt",
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{
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{
"code": "pt",
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{
"code": "sd",
"lang": "Sindhi",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "نام نهاد"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "tako imenovan"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "llamado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "så kallad"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "zer ba'i",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "ཟེར་བའི"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "grag pa'i",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "གྲག་པའི"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ces zer ba",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "ཅེས་ཟེར་བ"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ces bya ba",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "ཅེས་བྱ་བ"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "zhes bya ba",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "ཞེས་བྱ་བ"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ces bya zhing",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "ཅེས་བྱ་ཞིང"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "ces bya ste",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "ཅེས་བྱ་སྟེ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "sözde"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "tak zványj",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "так зва́ний"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "t.z.",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "т.з."
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "cái gọi là"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "azoy gerufn",
"sense": "so named, but wrongly so",
"word": "אַזוי גערופֿן"
}
],
"word": "so-called"
}
{
"called_from": "translations/611",
"msg": "suspicious translation with 'used ': {'lang': 'Hebrew', 'code': 'he', 'sense': 'so named, but wrongly so', 'roman': 'kiv’yakhól, k’vayaklhól', 'word': 'כביכול used as a conjunctive adverb'}",
"path": [
"so-called"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "so-called",
"trace": ""
}
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