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{
"term": "again",
"partOfSpeech": "adverb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "one more time; on another occasion",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "This must never **happen again**."
},
{
"text": "**Try again**—it takes practice."
},
{
"text": "Can we **start again**, please?"
},
{
"text": "Could you say it again, please?"
},
{
"text": "When will I see you again?"
},
{
"text": "This author again proves to be a superb storyteller."
},
{
"text": "I've told you **again and again** *(= many times)* not to do that."
},
{
"text": "I'll have to write it **all over again** *(= again from the beginning)*."
},
{
"text": "She tried **over and over again** *(= many times)* to get it right."
},
{
"text": "He has **yet again** *(= as has happened many times before)* shown that he cannot be trusted."
},
{
"text": "**Once again** *(= as had happened several times before)*, the train was late."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "showing that somebody/something is in the same place or state that they were in originally",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We're very happy to be here together again."
},
{
"text": "He was glad to be home again."
},
{
"text": "You'll soon feel well again."
},
{
"text": "She spends two hours a day getting to work and **back again**."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "added to an amount that is already there",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The cost is about **half as much again** as it was two years ago."
},
{
"text": "I'd like **the same again** *(= the same amount or the same thing)*."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "used to show that a comment or fact is connected with what you have just said",
"examples": [
{
"text": "And again, we must think of the cost."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "used to introduce a fact or an opinion that contrasts with what you have just said",
"sensetop": "then/there again",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We might buy it but then again we might not."
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "used when you ask somebody to tell you something or repeat something that you think they have told you already",
"examples": [
{
"text": "What was the name again?"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "from time to time; occasionally",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Every now and again she checked to see if he was still asleep."
}
],
"topics": ["Time"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to ask somebody to serve you the same drink as before",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Same again, please!"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "often; on many or all occasions",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You will get a perfect result time after time if you follow these instructions."
},
{
"text": "Time and again, the girls have shown how strong and determined they can be."
}
],
"topics": ["Time"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈɡen//əˈɡeɪn/",
"audio": "ag/again/again__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈɡen//əˈɡeɪn/",
"audio": "ag/again/again__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English ongēan, ongægn, etc., of Germanic origin; related to German entgegen ‘opposite’."
}