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John Doe

nounid 79349·updated May 18, 2026
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an unknown or fictitious man who is a party to legal proceedings

polysemousMWE

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Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
Joe BloggsJoe Blowman in the street
plural
John Does
possessive
John Doe's
pluralpossessive
John Does'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
an unknown or fictitious man who is a party to legal proceedings
§2
a hypothetical average man
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
an unknown or fictitious man who is a party to legal proceedings
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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