word-vault/dist/data/cards/br/bread.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "bread",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a type of food made from flour, water and usually yeast mixed together and baked",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **loaf/slice/piece of bread**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "white/brown/wholemeal bread"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the smell of freshly baked bread"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a plate of **bread and butter**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had to live on bread and water for two weeks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She tore off a large hunk of bread."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This bread is going stale."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What would you like on your bread?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "oysters accompanied by slices of fresh rye bread"
                },
                {
                    "text": "bread thickly spread with peanut butter"
                },
                {
                    "text": "some nice crusty white bread"
                },
                {
                    "text": "People started going up to receive the bread and wine (= in a church service)."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["fresh", "hard", "mouldy/​moldy"],
                "… of bread": ["loaf", "package", "chunk"],
                "verb + bread": ["bake", "make", "cut"],
                "bread + noun": ["dough", "pudding", "roll"],
                "preposition": ["on bread"],
                "phrases": [
                    "bread and butter",
                    "bread and margarine",
                    "bread and cheese"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "money",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, slang)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you say that something is the best thing since sliced bread, you think it is extremely good, interesting, etc.",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the basic things that you need to live, especially food",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "you should be grateful for something, even if it is not as good, much, etc. as you really wanted; something is better than nothing",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The offer only amounted to half a loaf, but campaigners grabbed it anyway."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to know where you can get an advantage for yourself",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to take away somebody’s job so that they are no longer able to earn enough money to live",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bred/",
                "audio": "br/bread/bread__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bred/",
                "audio": "br/bread/bread__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English brēad, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch brood and German Brot."
}