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{
"term": "almost",
"partOfSpeech": "adverb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "not quite",
"labels": "British English",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I like almost all of them."
},
{
"text": "They'll eat almost anything."
},
{
"text": "Almost no one *(= hardly anyone)* believed him."
},
{
"text": "The castle is **almost entirely** surrounded by water."
},
{
"text": "It's a mistake they **almost always** make."
},
{
"text": "The painting is **almost certainly** a forgery."
},
{
"text": "Her handwriting is **almost impossible** to read."
},
{
"text": "The team faces **almost certain** defeat in today's match."
},
{
"text": "The workforce has **almost doubled** in the past ten years."
},
{
"text": "I **almost forgot** your birthday."
},
{
"text": "Housing has become almost as big a problem as education."
},
{
"text": "The story seems almost too strange to be true."
},
{
"text": "The story is almost certainly false."
},
{
"text": "Dinner's almost ready."
},
{
"text": "Their house is almost opposite ours."
},
{
"text": "His voice was almost inaudible."
},
{
"text": "The two brothers are almost inseparable."
},
{
"text": "He slipped and almost fell."
},
{
"text": "It's almost time to go."
}
],
"synonyms": "nearly"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɔːlməʊst/",
"audio": "al/almost/almost__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɔːlməʊst/",
"audio": "al/almost/almost__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English æl mǣst ‘for the most part’, a composite of all and most."
}