dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/jil_MW.json

{
  "Jilin":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "city in the province of Jilin, northeastern China population 1,470,000":[],
      "province of northeastern China bordering on North Korea and Russia in eastern Manchuria ; capital Changchun area 72,201 square miles (187,723 square kilometers), population 27,452,815":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8j\u0113-\u02c8lin"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104150",
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ]
  },
  "Jilong":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "city and port on the East China Sea in northern Taiwan population 391,950":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8j\u0113-\u02c8lu\u0307\u014b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050506",
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ]
  },
  "jill":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a female ferret":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8jil"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073222",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "jillet":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a vexatiously flirtatious girl : wench":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jill entry 1 + -et":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8jil\u0259\u0307t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084021",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "jillion":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": zillion":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But America, with its jillion colleges and universities, dotting the land",
      "But now, there are a jillion , and satire has gone more mainstream. \u2014 Neal Justin, Star Tribune , 22 Sep. 2020",
      "Mark Waid, a fan favorite writer of approximately umpty- jillion beloved comics, masterminded the revamp. \u2014 cleveland , 6 Feb. 2020",
      "Startup pro football leagues in the past 47 years are 0-for-a- jillion . \u2014 Peter King, SI.com , 21 Mar. 2018",
      "White won the Olympic snowboard halfpipe yesterday afternoon with a combination of divine talent and some old-school competitive grit, and afterward the kid from Carlsbad with a jillion product endorsements put in a plug of his own. \u2014 Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com , 13 Feb. 2018",
      "There are no title belts, no exotic nicknames and certainly no jillion -dollar purses to reward the work Lisa McClellan does. \u2014 Dan Mcgrath, chicagotribune.com , 24 Aug. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1942, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "j + -illion (as in million )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ji-l\u0113-\u0259n",
      "\u02c8jil-y\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192526",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "jilt":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a person who casts off or rejects someone previously accepted as a lover : one who jilts (see jilt entry 1 ) a lover":[],
      ": to cast off or reject (someone, such as a lover) capriciously or unfeelingly":[
        "a jilted lover"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "She was crushed when he jilted her.",
      "still trying to get over being jilted by his longtime girlfriend",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Last October Microsoft was awarded a contract worth up to $10 billion for the system, jilting Amazon, the cloud-computing market leader. \u2014 Aaron Gregg, Washington Post , 23 Jan. 2020",
      "The field has winnowed dramatically in the last few days, with billionaire Tom Steyer dropping out on Saturday, followed by Buttigieg, who jilted Dallas supporters awaiting his rally at a downtown park. \u2014 Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News , 2 Mar. 2020",
      "Trevi\u00f1o said Lime\u2019s suggestion that high city fees had played into its decision to leave would concern him more if only San Antonio had been jilted . \u2014 Bruce Selcraig, ExpressNews.com , 9 Jan. 2020",
      "He\u2019d just been jilted by head coach Willie Taggart, who leveraged Oregon and then left the Ducks for Florida State and a $30 million windfall. \u2014 John Canzano | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 7 Dec. 2019",
      "All of this comes months after UConn jilted the American Athletic Conference (AAC) for the Big East. \u2014 Michael Hamad, courant.com , 27 Nov. 2019",
      "After all, Oregonians felt used, misled and jilted by the way the coach conducted himself in his one season in Eugene. \u2014 John Canzano | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 3 Nov. 2019",
      "Meanwhile, in Boston, millions of Celtics fans jilted by Kyrie are prepared to build Kemba a statue before he's even played a game. \u2014 Andrew Sharp, SI.com , 4 Sep. 2019",
      "Not wanting a guy who jilted you to succeed I get, but some of the anger and nastiness is way over the top. \u2014 Tim Brown, oregonlive , 3 Nov. 2019",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "What felt like a jilt to the losers showed just how much of a hold Amazon exerted on a swath of American cities. \u2014 Shayndi Raice, WSJ , 14 Nov. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1673, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "circa 1674, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration of jillet flirtatious girl":"Noun and Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8jilt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "blow off",
      "break off (with)",
      "ditch",
      "dump",
      "kiss off",
      "leave"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101430",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  }
}