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A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.
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{
"term": "each",
"partOfSpeech": "determiner, pronoun, adverb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to refer to every one of two or more people or things, when you are thinking about them separately",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Each answer is worth 20 points."
},
{
"text": "Each of the answers is worth 20 points."
},
{
"text": "The answers are worth 20 points each."
},
{
"text": "‘Red or blue?’ ‘I'll take one of each, please.’"
},
{
"text": "Look at the pictures and answer the questions about **each one**."
},
{
"text": "We each have our own car."
},
{
"text": "There aren't enough books for everyone to have one each."
},
{
"text": "They lost $40 each."
},
{
"text": "Each day that passed he grew more and more desperate."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "every single one",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I look forward to seeing each and every one of you as we celebrate our 50th year."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/iːtʃ/",
"audio": "ea/each/each__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/iːtʃ/",
"audio": "ea/each/each__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English ǣlc; related to Dutch elk and German jeglich, based on a West Germanic phrase meaning ‘ever alike’ (see alike)."
}