dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/mah_MW.json
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"mahogany":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": the wood of any of various chiefly tropical trees (family Meliaceae, the mahogany family):":[],
": the durable yellowish-brown to reddish-brown usually moderately hard and heavy wood of a West Indian tree ( Swietenia mahagoni ) that is widely used for cabinetwork and fine finish work":[],
": a wood similar to mahogany from a congeneric tropical American tree (especially S. macrophylla )":[],
": the rather hard heavy usually odorless wood of any of several African trees (genus Khaya )":[],
": the rather lightweight cedar-scented wood of any of several African trees (genus Entandrophragma ) that varies in color from pinkish to deep reddish brown":[],
": any of various woods resembling or substituted for mahogany obtained from trees of the mahogany family":[],
": a tree that yields mahogany":[],
": a moderate reddish brown":[]
},
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"m\u0259-\u02c8h\u00e4-g\u0259-n\u0113"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the well- to-do booked tickets for a Wagner Palace Car, a serene mahogany and brocade escape from the overflowing second-class and dismal third-class options. \u2014 April White, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"Featuring Cuban mahogany and rich marbles, the public areas of the hotel are sophisticated, with just the right amount of whimsy. \u2014 Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"The brass and mahogany telescope tube is 16 feet long. \u2014 Dean Regas, The Enquirer , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Rugged accords of Douglas fir and mahogany are enriched with magnetic notes of sandalwood and bergamot to create a truly revitalizing aroma. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Materials include Macassar and carbon fiber on the Rapid (pictured), rosewood on the Malibu and holly and mahogany on the Muskoka. \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Constructed of mahogany with a pretty French blue satin finish, the chairs feature high backs, square arms, and angled back legs. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Low ceilings, mahogany wood and in-room cocktail parlors honor the hotel\u2019s history as a Hollywood getaway in the 1950s. \u2014 Anna Haines, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Today the interior looks almost the same as in 1983, when Arthur passed away: parquet floor in the dining room, mahogany paneling, sea-serpent fixtures in the head, floral artwork by L\u00ea Pho personally chosen by Arthur for the four staterooms. \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 26 Mar. 2022"
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"origin unknown":""
},
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"1660, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"transitive verb"
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": to cause to resemble mahogany usually by staining":[
"a mahoganized cabinet"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-065406"
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"mahua":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": any of several East Indian trees of the genus Madhuca (especially M. latifolia or M. indica ) with nectar-filled flowers that are used for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink \u2014 compare illupi":[]
},
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"\u02c8m\u00e4(h)w\u0259"
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"Hindi mah\u016b\u0101 , from Sanskrit madh\u016bka , from madhu sweet, honey, mead":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-083558"
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"Mahsud":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of a people of northwestern Pakistan related to the Wazir":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"m\u00e4\u02c8s\u00fcd"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-094936"
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"mahayana":{
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"adjective",
"noun",
"noun or adjective"
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": a liberal and theistic branch of Buddhism comprising sects chiefly in China and Japan, recognizing a large body of scripture in addition to the Pali canon, and teaching social concern and universal salvation \u2014 compare theravada":[]
},
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"\u02ccm\u00e4-h\u0259-\u02c8y\u00e4-n\u0259"
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"Sanskrit mah\u0101y\u0101na , literally, great vehicle":""
},
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"1855, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181043"
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": a liberal and theistic branch of Buddhism comprising sects chiefly in China and Japan, recognizing a large body of scripture in addition to the Pali canon, and teaching social concern and universal salvation \u2014 compare theravada":[]
},
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"\u02ccm\u00e4-h\u0259-\u02c8y\u00e4-n\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Sanskrit mah\u0101y\u0101na , literally, great vehicle":""
},
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"1855, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-195404"
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"mahoe":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": either of two tropical hibiscus trees ( Hibiscus elatus and H. tiliaceus )":[]
},
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"m\u0259-\u02c8h\u014d",
"\u02c8m\u00e4-\u02cch\u014d"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French maho , from Taino":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1666, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-195630"
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"Mahaweli":{
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"geographical name"
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"definitions":{
"the chief river of Sri Lanka flowing 206 miles (332 kilometers) from the south central part of the country into the Bay of Bengal":[]
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"\u02ccm\u00e4-h\u00e4-\u02c8w\u0101-l\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-202428"
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"mahseer":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a large Indian freshwater cyprinid food and sport fish ( Barbus mosal )":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Hindi mah\u0101sir , probably from Sanskrit mahat big, great + \u015biras head":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-214840"
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"noun"
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": any of several dark-colored oil-soluble mixtures of sulfonic acid derivatives of petroleum that are obtained as by-products in refining white oils with sulfuric acid or made as primary products by sulfonation of petroleum distillates and are used as such or in the form of salts chiefly as emulsifying agents, as rust-proofing agents, and as additives to lubricants":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232807"
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"mahonia":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": any of a genus ( Mahonia ) of American and Asian shrubs (such as the Oregon grape) of the barberry family":[]
},
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"m\u0259-\u02c8h\u014d-n\u0113-\u0259"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The plants that seem to be showing the most damage in central Arkansas are: loropetalum, gardenia, abelia, wax leaf Ligustrum, pineapple guava, confederate jasmine, palms, Soft Caress mahonia , and Distylium. \u2014 Janet Carson, Arkansas Online , 1 Mar. 2021",
"My abelia, Soft Caress mahonia and pineapple guava all have burned leaves. \u2014 Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online , 22 Feb. 2021",
"For folks who aren\u2019t familiar with them, leatherleaf mahonias are cousins of nandinas. \u2014 Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com , 9 Apr. 2020",
"The name Soft Caress tells you this is not your typical mahonia . \u2014 Norman Winter, idahostatesman , 31 Jan. 2018",
"Such is the case with Soft Caress mahonia which has quickly become one of my all-time favorite shrubs with shocking yellow blooms when nothing else seems to be happening, and yes, bringing in the bees. \u2014 Norman Winter, idahostatesman , 31 Jan. 2018",
"For a 3- to 5-foot hedge, consider dwarf yaupon holly, Chinese mahonia , dwarf sasanqua, dwarf oleander, azaleas, Indian hawthorn, nandina and Rotunda holly. \u2014 NOLA.com , 27 Jan. 2018",
"It is fringed with evergreen mahonias , plants introduced to Britain by Robert Fortune, a Scottish plant hunter who found them in the 1840s after the first Opium War had prised open the Chinese door. \u2014 The Economist , 16 Dec. 2017"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Bernard Mc Mahon \u20201816 American botanist":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1818, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001115"
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"Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun":{
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"biographical name"
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"definitions":{
"1952\u2013 king of Thailand (2016\u2013 )":[]
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"\u02c8m\u00e4-h\u00e4-\u02c8w\u00e4-j\u0113-r\u00e4-\u02c8l\u014d\u014b-\u02cck\u022fn-\u02c8b\u014d-d\u0113n-\u02cctr\u00e4-\u02c8te-b\u00e4-\u02ccy\u00e4-\u02c8w\u00e4-r\u00e4\u014b-\u02cck\u00fcn"
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"Mahon stock":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": virginian stock":[]
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"m\u0259\u02c8h\u014dn-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from Mah\u00f3n , Minorca, Spain":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-044020"
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": a native or inhabitant of the Mahra region of the Arabian peninsula":[],
": the Semitic language of the Mahri people":[]
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"\u02c8m\u00e4r\u0113"
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"Arabic mahr\u012by or mahrah":""
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"Mahone Bay":{
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"geographical name"
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"definitions":{
"inlet of the Atlantic in southern Nova Scotia, Canada":[]
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"m\u0259-\u02c8h\u014dn"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-084458"
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": a person of great prestige in a field of endeavor":[]
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"-\u02c8hat-",
"m\u0259-\u02c8h\u00e4t-m\u0259"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But a statue of Mohandas Gandhi in a Delhi park seemed girded for the struggle ahead: Antipollution campaigners had fitted the mahatma with a respirator mask. \u2014 Brook Larmer, New York Times , 23 Jan. 2018"
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"Sanskrit mah\u0101tman , from mah\u0101tman great-souled, from mahat + \u0101tman soul \u2014 more at atman":""
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"circa 1895, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-081720"
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"definitions":{
"1785\u20131839 Ottoman sultan (1808\u201339)":[]
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"m\u00e4-\u02c8m\u00fcd"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-103844"
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"mahlstick":{
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-115541"
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": pod mahogany":[]
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-171103"
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"definitions":{
"city and port on the Mediterranean Sea on Minorca Island, Spain population 23,315":[]
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"m\u00e4-\u02c8\u014dn",
"m\u0259-\u02c8h\u014dn"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-214412"
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"definitions":{
": moholi lemur":[]
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"Tswana mogw\u00eal\u00ea":""
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-001717"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": the expected messiah of Muslim tradition":[],
": a Muslim leader who assumes a messianic role":[]
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"\u02c8m\u00e4-d\u0113"
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"Arabic mahd\u012b , literally, one rightly guided":""
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"1626, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-014447"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a small slender European cherry ( Prunus mahaleb ) that has pure white fragrant flowers in racemes and small inferior fruits from which a dye and a cordial are sometimes made and that is grown for use as an understock in grafting cultivated cherries":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u00e4(h)\u0259\u02ccleb"
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"Arabic ma\u1e25lab":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-071121"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a prostrate much-matted shrub ( Ceanothus prostratus ) of the Pacific coast of the U.S.":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"so called from its use by American Indian women for making mats":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-073158"
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"Hawaiian interjection"
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"definitions":{
": thank you":[]
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"\u02c8m\u00e4-h\u00e4-l\u014d"
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"geographical name"
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"definitions":{
"island in the Indian Ocean, chief island of the Seychelles group population 78,500":[],
"town on the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala, southwestern India; a settlement of French India until 1954":[]
},
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"m\u00e4-\u02c8h\u0101"
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"biographical name"
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"definitions":{
"Naguib 1911\u20132006 Egyptian writer":[]
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"\u02c8m\u00e4\u1e35-f\u00fcz"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-083845"
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"Mahler":{
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"biographical name"
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"definitions":{
"Gustav 1860\u20131911 Austrian composer":[]
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"\u02c8m\u00e4-l\u0259r"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-092346"
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"definitions":{
": a member of an American Indian people of the upper Hudson River valley":[],
": the extinct Algonquian language of the Mahican people":[]
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"m\u0259-\u02c8h\u0113-k\u0259n"
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"Mahican":""
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"circa 1614, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"definitions":{
"city on the Dnieper River in eastern Belarus population 358,279":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"m\u0259-gil-\u02c8y\u022ff"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-105704"
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"definitions":{
": a game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with 144 tiles that are drawn and discarded until one player secures a winning hand":[]
},
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"\u02ccm\u00e4-\u02c8zh\u00e4\u014b",
"-\u02c8j\u022f\u014b",
"-\u02ccj\u00e4\u014b",
"\u02c8m\u00e4-\u02cczh\u00e4\u014b",
"-\u02c8j\u00e4\u014b",
"-\u02cczh\u022f\u014b",
"-\u02c8zh\u022f\u014b",
"-\u02ccj\u022f\u014b"
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"from Mah-Jongg , a trademark":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1920, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-122620"
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"definitions":{
": a small brown West Indian snapper ( Lutanus mahogoni )":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-160635"
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"definitions":{
"river about 560 miles (900 kilometers) long in eastern India flowing through several mouths into the Bay of Bengal in Odisha":[]
},
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"m\u0259-\u02c8h\u00e4-n\u0259-d\u0113"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an American Indian woman":[]
},
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"m\u0259\u02c8hal\u0259"
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"Yokuts mokel women":""
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"noun"
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"\u02ccm\u00e4-h\u0113-\u02c8m\u00e4-(\u02cc)h\u0113"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Hawaiian, Tahitian, & Marquesan":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1905, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-164405"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a religious superior : elder":[]
},
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"m\u0259\u02c8h\u0259nt"
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"Hindi mahant , from Prakrit mahanta- , from Sanskrit mahat great":""
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"Hebrew ma\u1e25\u0103z\u014dr , literally, cycle":""
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"\""
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"Arabic ma\u1e25all place":"Noun",
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},
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"\u02ccm\u0259-h\u0259-\u02c8j\u0259\u014b-g\u0259"
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},
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"\u02ccm\u00e4-h\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4-j\u0259"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The British enjoyed traveling to Kashmir in the summer months to escape the heat and dust of the Indian plains, but the local Hindu maharaja denied them permission to own land. \u2014 Ranjan Pal, CNN , 19 Nov. 2021",
"The maharaja then instructed that Lakshmi Bai would rule as regent until the boy came of age. \u2014 National Geographic , 6 Oct. 2020",
"In 1842 the young Manikarnika married the much older Gangadhar Rao, the maharaja , or king, of Jhansi. \u2014 National Geographic , 6 Oct. 2020",
"Historians say the maharaja brought land ownership rights on the insistence of powerful Kashmiri Hindus. \u2014 The Christian Science Monitor , 4 Aug. 2020",
"The 21-year-old maharaja is offering stays in the baby blue Gudliya Suite, with proceeds helping women's charities. \u2014 Toby Skinner, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 18 Dec. 2019",
"Further discussions culminated in the 1952 Delhi Agreement, a presidential order that extended Indian citizenship to the residents of the state but left the maharaja \u2019s privileges for residents intact. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Aug. 2019",
"Further discussions culminated in the 1952 Delhi Agreement, a presidential order that extended Indian citizenship to the residents of the state but left the maharaja \u2019s privileges for residents intact. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Aug. 2019",
"The Quit Kashmir movement against the maharaja is launched. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz India , 5 Aug. 2019"
],
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"Hindi & Urdu mah\u0101r\u0101ja , from Sanskrit, from mahat great + r\u0101jan raja; akin to Latin rex king \u2014 more at much , royal":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1698, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-075644"
},
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"noun"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Hindi mah\u0101jan , from Sanskrit mah\u0101jana , literally, great person, from mahat great + jana people, person":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-084943"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccm\u00e4-h\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4-n\u0113"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Hindi & Urdu mah\u0101r\u0101n\u012b , from mah\u0101 great (from Sanskrit mahat ) + r\u0101n\u012b rani":""
},
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},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-152903"
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"state of western India bordering on the Arabian Sea, formed in 1960 from the southeastern part of the former state of Bombay; capital Mumbai area 118,637 square miles (307,270 square kilometers), population 112,374,333":[]
},
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"\u02ccm\u00e4-h\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4sh-tr\u0259"
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": the Prakrit language of the region of Maharashtra in western India":[]
},
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"m\u0259\u02c8h\u00e4\u02c8r\u00e4sh(\u02cc)tr\u0113"
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"Sanskrit Mah\u0101r\u0101\u1e63\u1e6dr\u012b":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-201047"
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"-h\u00e4-",
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"Sanskrit maha\u0331r\u1e63i , from mahat + \u1e5b\u1e63i sage and poet":""
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": an adherent of an early Buddhist sect from which Mahayana Buddhism developed":[]
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"Sanskrit mah\u0101s\u0101\u1e43ghika , masculine plural, name of a Buddhist school":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-013423"
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"definitions":{
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"\u02c8m\u00e4(\u02cc)h\u00e4",
"\u02c8m\u00e4h\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Sinhalese maha large, great, from Sanskrit mahat":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-014016"
}
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