07154868-n 'a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression';
Definitions
- English
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a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression
― he preferred his erroneous but pleasing mumpsimus to the correct sumpsimus
- Japanese
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一般的だが誤りのある表現に代わる正しい表現
― 彼は、間違いを好んだが、間違いに固執する人を正しく正確な表現に訂正することを好んだ
Relations
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saying
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Semantic Field: |
communicationn |
External Links
More detail about the NTUMC+ Open Multilingual Wordnet (0.9)
This project is now integrated in the
Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet (0.9)
Maintainer:
Francis Bond
<bond@ieee.org>