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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

minispectacle en · NOUN

Etymology

From mini- + spectacle.

Meanings

  1. A minor, small-scale spectacle (impressive event).
    • But by bombarding users with distorted and deracinated images, the Internet instead just forces us to confront increasingly bizarre minispectacles, often right when were most vulnerable — alone, anxious, looking for answers. 2007 December 16, Virginia Heffernan, “Haunted Mouses”, in New York Times:

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minispectacles Number=Plur lexicographic