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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory) A grossly inferior imitation."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English proscribed terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2018 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 0 Arsenal”, in BBC",
"text": "Spurs survived the scare - and such was their domination after the break that it would have been a travesty had Arsenal escaped Wembley, hosting a Premier League record attendance of 83,222, with a draw.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An appalling version of something."
],
"links": [
[
"appalling",
"appalling"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, proscribed) An appalling version of something."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"proscribed"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɹæv.ɪs.ti/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɹæv.əs.ti/"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-travesty.oga",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c9/En-us-travesty.oga/En-us-travesty.oga.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/En-us-travesty.oga",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "trăvʹĭs-tē"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "caricature"
},
{
"word": "feign"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izopačavane",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "изопачаване"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"note": "拙劣的模仿 (zhuōliède mófǎng, literally “clumsy imitation”)",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "travestie"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "avbronglan"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "avskepling"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "keipumynd"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"word": "irvikuva"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Zerrbild"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "viḍambanā",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "विडंबना"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"word": "megcsúfolás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"word": "karikatúra"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"word": "farsa"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "karikatur"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "parodi"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "komedie"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "farse"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "parodija",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пародия"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "travestie"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "herming"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "keipuleikur"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Farce"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lächerliche Karikatur"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Travestie"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"word": "paródia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "trawestacja"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "A grossly inferior imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "armselige Karikatur"
}
],
"word": "travesty"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms derived from Italian",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wes- (dress)",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "travestier"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*wes-",
"id": "dress"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "travesti",
"t": "disguised, burlesqued"
},
"expansion": "French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "travestir",
"3": "",
"4": "to disguise"
},
"expansion": "travestir (“to disguise”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "it",
"3": "travestire",
"t": "to dress up, disguise"
},
"expansion": "Italian travestire (“to dress up, disguise”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "tra-",
"3": "vestire",
"nocat": "1",
"t1": "across",
"t2": "to dress"
},
"expansion": "tra- (“across”) + vestire (“to dress”)",
"name": "af"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "vestiō",
"4": "",
"5": "to clothe, dress"
},
"expansion": "Latin vestiō (“to clothe, dress”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*westis",
"t": "clothing"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*wéstis",
"4": "",
"5": "dressing"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*wes-",
"id": "dress",
"t": "to dress, clothe"
},
"expansion": "*wes- (“to dress, clothe”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "wear"
},
"expansion": "English wear",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "transvest"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of transvest",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”), past participle of travestir (“to disguise”), borrowed from Italian travestire (“to dress up, disguise”), from tra- (“across”) + vestire (“to dress”), from Latin vestiō (“to clothe, dress”), from Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”) from verbal root *wes- (“to dress, clothe”); cognate to English wear. Doublet of transvest.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "travesties",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "travestying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "travestied",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "travestied",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "travesty (third-person singular simple present travesties, present participle travestying, simple past and past participle travestied)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"trav‧es‧ty"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To make a travesty of; to parody."
],
"links": [
[
"parody",
"parody"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make a travesty of; to parody."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɹæv.ɪs.ti/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɹæv.əs.ti/"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-travesty.oga",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c9/En-us-travesty.oga/En-us-travesty.oga.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/En-us-travesty.oga",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "trăvʹĭs-tē"
}
],
"word": "travesty"
}
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