word-vault/dist/data/cards/di/dime.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "dime",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a coin of the US and Canada worth ten cents",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Money"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very common and therefore not valuable",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to tell the police or people in authority that somebody has done something wrong",
            "labels": "(North American English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "If he finds out who dropped the dime on him, they're in trouble."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm worried if I drop a dime on them, they'll get fired, which I don't think they really deserve."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/daɪm/",
                "audio": "di/dime/dime__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/daɪm/",
                "audio": "di/dime/dime__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French disme, from Latin decima pars ‘tenth part’. The word originally denoted a tithe or tenth part; the modern sense ‘ten cent coin’ dates from the late 18th cent."
}