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"ref": "2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 34",
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"text": "Green's Dictionary of Slang is a watershed publication in the annals of slang lexicography, being, beyond doubt, the most comprehensive scholarly dictionary of slang ever published.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Serving to mark a significant development, change in direction, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"significant",
"significant"
],
[
"development",
"development"
],
[
"direction",
"direction"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɔːtəʃɛd/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɔtɚʃɛd/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-watershed.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3b/En-us-watershed.ogg/En-us-watershed.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/En-us-watershed.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "wôʹtərshĕd"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "momentous"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"watershed"
],
"word": "watershed"
}
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