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1 exact word match found in search '主客転倒'
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reversing the order of (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; the tables being turned; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; mistaking the means for the end  (yojijukugo)
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18 partial word matches found in search '主客転倒'
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noun
host and guest; principal and auxiliary
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Most common form: 主人
noun
1. head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; landlord; landlady; master (of a servant)  (abbreviation)
2. entertaining someone as one's guest  (see also: 饗設け; also written as 饗; archaic)
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1. chief; main; principal; important  (see also: 主な, 主に)
2. main secondary or supporting role (in kyogen)  (see also: 重あど; usu. written as オモ; abbreviation)
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noun
1. head (of a household, etc.); leader; master
2. owner; proprietor; proprietress
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1. (one's) master
2. Lord (Christian ref. to Jesus or God)  (this meaning is restricted to reading しゅ)
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pronoun
you  (see also: ; archaic; familiar language)
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Most common form: 主人
1. head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; landlord; landlady  (see also: ご主人)
2. one's husband
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suffix
honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name  (archaic; honorific)
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noun
1. guest; visitor
2. customer; client; shopper; spectator; audience; tourist; sightseer; passenger
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Most common form: 客人
noun
1. visitor from afar  (see also: まろうど)
2. joy-bringing spirit from the divine realms
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Most common form: 客人
noun
visitor from afar; guest
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1. falling down; tumbling; overturning; turning over
2. reversing; inverting; inversion
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noun
1. altering pronunciation or meaning; word with altered pronunciation or meaning
2. turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)  (see also: 転句; abbreviation)
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noun
cognitive distortion  (Buddhist term)
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Most common form: くるり
1. turning around (once)  (often written with kana only; onomatopoeic or mimetic word)
2. suddenly; abruptly
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Most common form: 転た
more and more; increasingly; all the more  (see also: 益々:ますます, 愈:いよいよ; often written with kana only)
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Most common form: 逆しま
1. reverse; inversion; upside down
2. unreasonable; absurd; wrong
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Most common form:
noun (prefix), noun
inverse; reverse
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