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24 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• detective n. (Law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
• detective n. A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
• detective adj. Employed in detecting.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Asturian - Galician
  • detective n. Detective.

— English words, defined in German —

• detective S. Allgemein: Detektiv.
• detective S. Polizei: Kriminalbeamter.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• detective n. (Beroep) (oorspronkelijke betekenis) iemand bij de politie die misdaden door speurwerk opheldert.
• detective n. (Beroep) (algemeen) speurder die tracht misdaden op te lossen of bewijsmateriaal te verzamelen.

— English words, defined in French —

• detective n. Détective.
• detective n. (Police) Enquêteur membre de la police judiciaire. Équivalent en France d’un lieutenant, capitaine ou…

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• detective s. Detective.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• detective s. Detective.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• detective s. Investigatore.
• detective s. Poliziotto privato.

— In Dutch —

• detective n. (Beroep) (oorspronkelijke betekenis) iemand bij de politie…
• detective n. (Beroep) (algemeen) speurder die tracht misdaden op te lossen…
• detective n. Boek of programma over mensen die trachten misdaden op te lossen.

— In French —

• détective n. (Police) Agent de police employé à un service de recherches…
• détective n. Personne effectuant des recherches et enquêtes de type policier…
• détective adj. Féminin singulier de détectif.

— In Spanish —

• detective s. Oficial de policía o investigador privado cuya función es…

— In Portuguese —

• detective s. Agente investigador de crimes.
• detective s. Pessoa cujo trabalho consiste em fazer inquéritos, seguir…

— In Italian —

• detective s. (Forestierismo) (professione) (diritto) poliziotto privato.

27 English words from 4 English definitions

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19 English words from 20 foreign definitions

Agent capitaine crimes des Detective die door employé France lieutenant membre over Pessoa police policier privado programma service type

54 foreign words from 20 foreign definitions

Agent␣de␣police Agente algemeen Allgemein Beroep betekenis bewijsmateriaal bij Boek consiste cujo cuya de␣la détectif Détective Detektiv diritto effectuant enquêtes Enquêteur Équivalent fazer Féminin Forestierismo función iemand inquéritos investigador investigador␣privado Investigatore judiciaire Kriminalbeamter lossen mensen misdaden Oficial opheldert Personne police␣judiciaire policía politie Polizei poliziotto privato professione recherches seguir singulier speurder speurwerk trabalho tracht trachten verzamelen

5 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

detectives detective␣gag detective␣gags detectivelike detective␣work

6 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

cyberdetectives house-detectives house␣detectives stump␣detectives superdetectives private␣detectives

8 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

nondetective antidetective cyberdetective house-detective house␣detective stump␣detective superdetective private␣detective

20 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

CTI det Det DET det. Det. Dete detect ECT ect. ive Ive -ive I've TEC 'tec 'Tec tect Tiv -tive

10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

CET cete ITC tce TCE ted Ted TED VIT vit.

One anagram found with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

detectives

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

defective

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