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"text": "She was so wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead!",
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"word": "helfen"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to help; to support; to benefit; to assist",
"word": "menolong"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to help; to support; to benefit; to assist",
"word": "membantu"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to help; to support; to benefit; to assist",
"word": "mendukung"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to help; to support; to benefit; to assist",
"word": "ajuta"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to help; to support; to benefit; to assist",
"word": "sprijini"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pomogátʹ",
"sense": "to help; to support; to benefit; to assist",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "помога́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sodéjstvovatʹ",
"sense": "to help; to support; to benefit; to assist",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "соде́йствовать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bytʹ poléznym",
"sense": "to help; to support; to benefit; to assist",
"word": "быть поле́зным"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to fill place of",
"word": "ersetzen"
}
],
"word": "stead"
}
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"categories": [
"English clippings",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛd",
"Rhymes:English/ɛd/1 syllable"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "steady"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of steady",
"name": "clipping"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "steads",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "stead (plural steads)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Singapore English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1997 May 27, Ordinary People, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):",
"text": "C'mon lah!! Wake up.. Y R U stupid girls so CHEAP!! Imagine a baby making out with an adult! Want to have stead,.. Go find 1 16yr old rich kid lah!! At for let those men take advantage!! Remember Men CANNOT be Trusted!! Boys maybe can.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1998 April 17, L.Angel, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):",
"text": "I prefer to know a guy better as a friend first before even considering him as a potential stead.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1999 February 13, L.Angel, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):",
"text": "One of the best dates I had was with his person who did attempt to impress me with expensive gifts or flowers. My date did asked though but I said no because for somebody who's not my stead and I dun feel there was a need to.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004 January 30, Fann Low, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):",
"text": "after 2 week or so I decide to tell her I like her and asked her to be my stead. But she tell me she had another guy. So we remain as friend.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One's partner in a romantic relationship."
],
"links": [
[
"partner",
"partner"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Singapore, colloquial) One's partner in a romantic relationship."
],
"tags": [
"Singapore",
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "stěd"
},
{
"ipa": "/stɛd/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-stead.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/En-us-stead.ogg/En-us-stead.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/En-us-stead.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛd"
}
],
"word": "stead"
}
Download raw JSONL data for stead meaning in English (27.1kB)
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"called_from": "page/2530",
"msg": "skipping string in the middle of translations: </table></div></div>\n\n",
"path": [
"stead"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "stead",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "page/2517",
"msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'a frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead', 2: 'bedstead'}",
"path": [
"stead",
"Template:trans-top-see",
"TEMPLATE_FN"
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"section": "English",
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}
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