word-vault/dist/data/cards/ei/eight.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "eight",
    "partOfSpeech": "numbernoun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "8",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There are only eight of these rare animals left."
                },
                {
                    "text": "eight of Sweden’s top financial experts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ten people were invited but only eight turned up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you lend me eight dollars?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an eight-month contract"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Look at page eight."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Eight and one is nine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Two eights are sixteen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't read your writing—is this meant to be an eight?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bulbs are planted in sixes or eights *(= groups of six or eight)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We moved to America when I was eight *(= eight years old)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Shall we meet at eight *(= at eight o'clock)*, then?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a team of eight people who row a long narrow boat in races; the boat they row",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Sports: water sports"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/eɪt/",
                "audio": "ei/eight/eight__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/eɪt/",
                "audio": "ei/eight/eight__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}