"中堅" meaning in Japanese

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "中堅",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "中",
          "ちゅう"
        ],
        [
          "堅",
          "けん"
        ]
      ],
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        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chūken",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "ちゅうけん"
      },
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      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "main force, main body of troops"
      ],
      "id": "en-中堅-ja-noun--TDNrvL7",
      "links": [
        [
          "main",
          "main"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body"
        ],
        [
          "troop",
          "troop"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Could this person presenting himself before me actually be the central literary figure serving as the mouthpiece of the anguish of our new age?",
          "ref": "1948, 豊島与志雄, 小さき花にも",
          "roman": "Ittai kore ga, shinjidai no kunō no daibensha to mesareru chūken sakka no, hontō no sugata na no de arō ka.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "新時代",
              "しんじだい"
            ],
            [
              "苦悩",
              "くのう"
            ],
            [
              "代弁者",
              "だいべんしゃ"
            ],
            [
              "目",
              "め"
            ],
            [
              "中堅",
              "ちゅうけん"
            ],
            [
              "作家",
              "さっか"
            ],
            [
              "本当",
              "ほんとう"
            ],
            [
              "姿",
              "すがた"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "いったいこれが、新時代の苦悩の代弁者と目される中堅作家の、本当の姿なのであろうか。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "backbone, core, key figure"
      ],
      "id": "en-中堅-ja-noun-Q1uVkh0M",
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        [
          "backbone",
          "backbone"
        ],
        [
          "core",
          "core"
        ],
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          "key",
          "key"
        ],
        [
          "figure",
          "figure"
        ]
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        {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 6 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 9 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 14 55",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "21 9 70",
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          "parents": [],
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "center field"
      ],
      "id": "en-中堅-ja-noun-6xh2NxOb",
      "links": [
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "center field",
          "center field"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(baseball) center field"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ちゅうけん"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɨːkẽ̞ɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "中堅"
}

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    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji",
    "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "中堅",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "中",
          "ちゅう"
        ],
        [
          "堅",
          "けん"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chūken",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "main force, main body of troops"
      ],
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        [
          "main",
          "main"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body"
        ],
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          "troop",
          "troop"
        ]
      ]
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        {
          "english": "Could this person presenting himself before me actually be the central literary figure serving as the mouthpiece of the anguish of our new age?",
          "ref": "1948, 豊島与志雄, 小さき花にも",
          "roman": "Ittai kore ga, shinjidai no kunō no daibensha to mesareru chūken sakka no, hontō no sugata na no de arō ka.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "新時代",
              "しんじだい"
            ],
            [
              "苦悩",
              "くのう"
            ],
            [
              "代弁者",
              "だいべんしゃ"
            ],
            [
              "目",
              "め"
            ],
            [
              "中堅",
              "ちゅうけん"
            ],
            [
              "作家",
              "さっか"
            ],
            [
              "本当",
              "ほんとう"
            ],
            [
              "姿",
              "すがた"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "いったいこれが、新時代の苦悩の代弁者と目される中堅作家の、本当の姿なのであろうか。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "backbone, core, key figure"
      ],
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        [
          "backbone",
          "backbone"
        ],
        [
          "core",
          "core"
        ],
        [
          "key",
          "key"
        ],
        [
          "figure",
          "figure"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        "ja:Baseball"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "center field"
      ],
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        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "center field",
          "center field"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(baseball) center field"
      ],
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        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "other": "ちゅうけん"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕɨːkẽ̞ɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "中堅"
}

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    "中堅"
  ],
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  "subsection": "noun",
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