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{
"term": "delicious",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "having a very pleasant taste or smell",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Who cooked this? It's absolutely delicious."
},
{
"text": "to **taste/smell/look delicious**"
},
{
"text": "a delicious meal/recipe/treat"
},
{
"text": "This dish is delicious with cream."
},
{
"text": "The food was delicious."
},
{
"text": "The meal was really delicious."
},
{
"text": "The recipe sounds delicious."
},
{
"text": "Their hens provide them with delicious and nutritious eggs."
},
{
"text": "Lentils cooked with garlic make a delicious accompaniment to sausages or red meat."
},
{
"text": "What's that? It smells delicious."
},
{
"text": "a delicious alternative to cheese"
}
],
"topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "smell"],
"adverb": ["incredibly", "most", "really"],
"phrases": ["delicious and nutritious"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "extremely pleasant",
"labels": "(literary)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the delicious coolness of the breeze"
},
{
"text": "A delicious shiver of excitement ran through his body."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈlɪʃəs/",
"audio": "de/delicious/delicious__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈlɪʃəs/",
"audio": "de/delicious/delicious__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (also in the sense ‘characterized by sensuous indulgence’): via Old French from late Latin deliciosus, from Latin deliciae (plural) ‘delight, pleasure’."
}