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A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.
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{
"term": "duration",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the length of time that something lasts or continues",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The school was used as a hospital for the duration of the war."
},
{
"text": "a contract of three years’ duration"
},
{
"text": "Taking antibiotics will shorten the duration of the illness."
},
{
"text": "The next contract will be of shorter duration."
},
{
"text": "The overall duration of the flight was 11 hours."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["brief", "short", "limited"],
"verb + duration": ["decrease", "reduce", "shorten"],
"preposition": [
"for the duration (of)",
"of… duration",
"throughout the duration of"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "until the end of a particular situation, especially a war",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "His wife and children had gone for the duration to the Lake District to escape the bombs."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/djuˈreɪʃn/",
"audio": "du/duration/duration__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/duˈreɪʃn/",
"audio": "du/duration/duration__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin duratio(n-), from durare ‘to last’, from durus ‘hard’."
}