See wax museum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for wax museum meaning in English (2.4kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "wax museums",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "wax museum (plural wax museums)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Museums",
"orig": "en:Museums",
"parents": [
"Art",
"Businesses",
"Tourism",
"Culture",
"Business",
"Travel",
"Society",
"Economics",
"Human activity",
"Transport",
"All topics",
"Social sciences",
"Human behaviour",
"Fundamental",
"Sciences",
"Human"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2020, James McKay, Ray Milland: The Films, 1929–1984, McFarland, page 261",
"text": "On the eve of selling his London wax museum to American Amos Burns, Claude Dupree is murdered by his Jack the Ripper figure, which apparently comes to life.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A museum featuring lifelike statues made of wax."
],
"id": "en-wax_museum-en-noun-SK639rH8",
"links": [
[
"lifelike",
"lifelike"
],
[
"statue",
"statue"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "waxwork"
},
{
"word": "waxworks"
},
{
"word": "wax figure"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "musée de cire"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Wachsfigurenkabinett"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Panoptikum"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "museo delle cere"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "museu de cera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "museo de cera"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"wax museum"
]
}
],
"word": "wax museum"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "wax museums",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "wax museum (plural wax museums)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "waxwork"
},
{
"word": "waxworks"
},
{
"word": "wax figure"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Museums"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2020, James McKay, Ray Milland: The Films, 1929–1984, McFarland, page 261",
"text": "On the eve of selling his London wax museum to American Amos Burns, Claude Dupree is murdered by his Jack the Ripper figure, which apparently comes to life.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A museum featuring lifelike statues made of wax."
],
"links": [
[
"lifelike",
"lifelike"
],
[
"statue",
"statue"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"wax museum"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "musée de cire"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Wachsfigurenkabinett"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Panoptikum"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "museo delle cere"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "museu de cera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "museum featuring statues made of wax",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "museo de cera"
}
],
"word": "wax museum"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.