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A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.
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{
"term": "content",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "happy and satisfied with what you have",
"sensetop": "content with somethingcontent with doing something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He seemed more content, less bitter."
},
{
"text": "He had to be content with third place.",
"contextForm": "content with something"
},
{
"text": "Not content with stealing my boyfriend *(= not thinking that this was enough)*, she has turned all my friends against me.",
"contextForm": "content with doing something"
},
{
"text": "She felt curiously content."
},
{
"text": "She seemed quite content with the idea."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "willing to do something",
"sensetop": "content to do something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I was content to wait."
},
{
"text": "I'm perfectly content just to lie in the sun."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["with"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈtent/",
"audio": "xc/content/xcontent__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈtent/",
"audio": "xc/content/xcontent__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via Old French from Latin contentus ‘satisfied’, past participle of continere from con- ‘altogether’ + tenere ‘to hold’."
}