"ward" meaning in German

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        "1": "de",
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      },
      "expansion": "ward",
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  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "the first/third-person singular preterite of werden",
          "word": "wurde"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "And God said: \"Let there be light.\" And there was light.",
          "ref": "Genesis 1:3",
          "text": "Und Gott sprach: »Es werde Licht!« Und es ward Licht.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 477:",
          "text": "Wohingegen Diederich von tiefem Wohlgefallen erfüllt ward durch die Teckel des Kaisers, die vor den Schleppen der Hofdamen keine Achtung zu haben brauchten.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of wurde, the first/third-person singular preterite of werden"
      ],
      "id": "en-ward-de-verb-MmWr0xI2",
      "links": [
        [
          "wurde",
          "wurde#German"
        ],
        [
          "werden",
          "werden#German"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
        "archaic"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/vart/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[vaʁt]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[vaɐ̯t]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[vaːt]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʋ-]"
    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "homophone": "Wart (general)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "wart"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "wahrt (some speakers)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ward"
}

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      "expansion": "ward",
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  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "the first/third-person singular preterite of werden",
          "word": "wurde"
        }
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        {
          "english": "And God said: \"Let there be light.\" And there was light.",
          "ref": "Genesis 1:3",
          "text": "Und Gott sprach: »Es werde Licht!« Und es ward Licht.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 477:",
          "text": "Wohingegen Diederich von tiefem Wohlgefallen erfüllt ward durch die Teckel des Kaisers, die vor den Schleppen der Hofdamen keine Achtung zu haben brauchten.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of wurde, the first/third-person singular preterite of werden"
      ],
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        [
          "wurde",
          "wurde#German"
        ],
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          "werden",
          "werden#German"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/vart/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[vaʁt]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[vaɐ̯t]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[vaːt]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʋ-]"
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    {
      "homophone": "Wart (general)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "wart"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "wahrt (some speakers)"
    }
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  "word": "ward"
}