"vlei" meaning in English

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      "word": "vlei rat"
    }
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      "expansion": "Afrikaans vlei",
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      "expansion": "Dutch vallei (“valley”)",
      "name": "der"
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      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of valley",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Afrikaans vlei, from Dutch vallei (“valley”). Doublet of valley.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vleis",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "vlei (plural vleis)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1861, Charles John Andersson, Lake Ngami, chapter XXV, page 301",
          "text": "The country thereabout was a succession of vleys or gulleys, then filled with excellent clear water, teeming with water-fowl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 59",
          "text": "She remembered the pleasurable warm smell of the cow droppings […] as if the four-divided stomachs of the great oxen were filled with nothing but concentrated memories of hours of grazing along the water heavy vleis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jeremiah Allen, Namibia, Other Places Travel Guide, page 199",
          "text": "Although rare, it takes an unearthly amount of rain to fill the Tsauchab River and penetrate the dune area, bringing water into the vlei. During these rare times, the vlei takes on a life of its own, much different than in the absence of water[…]",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shallow wetland or minor lake, generally a seasonal one, or the lowland where such a wetland appears seasonally."
      ],
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          "shallow",
          "shallow"
        ],
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          "wetland",
          "wetland"
        ],
        [
          "lake",
          "lake"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern Africa) A shallow wetland or minor lake, generally a seasonal one, or the lowland where such a wetland appears seasonally."
      ],
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        "Southern-Africa"
      ],
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          "sense": "shallow wetland or minor lake, especially a seasonal one",
          "word": "vlei"
        }
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          "_dis": "40 60",
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      "glosses": [
        "A wetland or marsh."
      ],
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          "wetland",
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          "marsh",
          "marsh"
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        "(US regional) A wetland or marsh."
      ],
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fleɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-South-African"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fliː/",
      "tags": [
        "General-South-African"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fleɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vlʌɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vli/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/fli/",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "vley"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "vly"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vlei"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English doublets",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Afrikaans",
    "English terms derived from Afrikaans",
    "English terms derived from Dutch",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "vlei rat"
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "bor"
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      "expansion": "Dutch vallei (“valley”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
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      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of valley",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Afrikaans vlei, from Dutch vallei (“valley”). Doublet of valley.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vleis",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "vlei (plural vleis)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1861, Charles John Andersson, Lake Ngami, chapter XXV, page 301",
          "text": "The country thereabout was a succession of vleys or gulleys, then filled with excellent clear water, teeming with water-fowl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 59",
          "text": "She remembered the pleasurable warm smell of the cow droppings […] as if the four-divided stomachs of the great oxen were filled with nothing but concentrated memories of hours of grazing along the water heavy vleis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jeremiah Allen, Namibia, Other Places Travel Guide, page 199",
          "text": "Although rare, it takes an unearthly amount of rain to fill the Tsauchab River and penetrate the dune area, bringing water into the vlei. During these rare times, the vlei takes on a life of its own, much different than in the absence of water[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shallow wetland or minor lake, generally a seasonal one, or the lowland where such a wetland appears seasonally."
      ],
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          "wetland",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern Africa) A shallow wetland or minor lake, generally a seasonal one, or the lowland where such a wetland appears seasonally."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-Africa"
      ]
    },
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        "American English",
        "Regional English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wetland or marsh."
      ],
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        [
          "wetland",
          "wetland"
        ],
        [
          "marsh",
          "marsh"
        ]
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        "(US regional) A wetland or marsh."
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fleɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-South-African"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fliː/",
      "tags": [
        "General-South-African"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fleɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vlʌɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vli/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fli/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fleɪ/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "vley"
    },
    {
      "word": "vly"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "shallow wetland or minor lake, especially a seasonal one",
      "word": "vlei"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vlei"
}