"burglary" meaning in All languages combined

See burglary on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbɜː(r)ɡləri/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-burglary.wav [UK] Forms: burglary [singular], burglaries [plural]
Etymology: burglar + -y Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|burglar|y}} burglar + -y Head templates: {{noun|2=burglaries}} [POS TABLE]
  1. Burglary is the illegal entry into a property, such as a vehicle or house, with the intention to steal.
    Sense id: simple-burglary-en-noun-JhDiUBhM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -y
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Terms suffixed with -y",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "burglar",
        "2": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "burglar + -y",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "burglar + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "burglary",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burglaries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "2": "burglaries"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He was given a two-year sentence for burglary."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Burglary is the illegal entry into a property, such as a vehicle or house, with the intention to steal."
      ],
      "id": "simple-burglary-en-noun-JhDiUBhM"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɜː(r)ɡləri/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-burglary.wav",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "burglary"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Terms suffixed with -y"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "burglar",
        "2": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "burglar + -y",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "burglar + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "burglary",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "burglaries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "2": "burglaries"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He was given a two-year sentence for burglary."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Burglary is the illegal entry into a property, such as a vehicle or house, with the intention to steal."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɜː(r)ɡləri/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-burglary.wav",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "burglary"
}

Download raw JSONL data for burglary meaning in All languages combined (0.8kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). 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.