word-vault/dist/data/cards/a/a.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "a",
    "partOfSpeech": "indefinite article",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "used before countable or singular nouns referring to people or things that have not already been mentioned",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a man/horse/unit"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an aunt/egg/hour/X-ray"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can only carry two at a time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's a visitor for you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's a friend of my father's *(= one of my father's friends)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to show that somebody/something is a member of a group or profession",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Their new car's a BMW."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's a Buddhist."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a teacher."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is that a Monet *(= a painting by Monet)*?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "any; every",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A lion is a dangerous animal."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "used before uncountable nouns when these have an adjective in front of them, or phrase following them",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a good knowledge of French"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a sadness that won’t go away"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "used in front of two nouns that are seen as a single unit",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a knife and fork"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "used instead of one before some numbers",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A thousand people were there."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "used when talking about prices, quantities and rates",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They cost 50p a kilo."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can type 50 words a minute."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was driving at 50 miles an hour."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "per"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "a person like somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's a little Greta Thunberg."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "used before somebody’s name to show that the speaker does not know the person",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There's a Mrs Green to see you."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 10,
            "definition": "used before the names of days of the week to talk about one particular day",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She died on a Tuesday."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ə//eɪ/",
                "audio": "a/a/a__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ən//æn/",
                "audio": "an/a/an__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ə//eɪ/",
                "audio": "a/a/a__us_2_rr.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ən//æn/",
                "audio": "an/a/an__us_3_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: weak form of Old English ān ‘one’."
}