word-vault/dist/data/cards/en/envy.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "envy",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the feeling of wanting to be in the same situation as somebody else; the feeling of wanting something that somebody else has",
            "sensetop": "envy (of somebody)envy (at/of something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He couldn't conceal his envy of me.",
                    "contextForm": "envy (of somebody)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She felt a pang of envy at the thought of his success.",
                    "contextForm": "envy (at/of something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They looked **with envy** at her latest purchase."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her colleagues were **green with envy** (= they had very strong feelings of )."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His car was an object of envy among his friends."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her youth and looks aroused extreme envy in her rivals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I detected a tinge of envy in her tone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I felt a twinge of envy for the people who lived there."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had no envy of his success."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I look with envy on those lucky people with big families."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was filled with envy at their adventurous lifestyle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Freudian concept of penis envy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the envy she felt for her sister"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["extreme", "unconscious", "class"],
                "… of envy": ["tinge", "touch", "pang"],
                "verb + envy": ["be consumed with", "be green with", "feel"],
                "preposition": ["with envy", "envy at", "envy for"],
                "phrases": ["be the envy of somebody/​something", "an object of envy"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be a person or thing that other people admire and that causes feelings of envy",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "British television is the envy of the world."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈenvi/",
                "audio": "en/envy/envy__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈenvi/",
                "audio": "en/envy/envy__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (also in the sense ‘hostility, enmity’): from Old French envie (noun), envier (verb), from Latin invidia, from invidere ‘regard maliciously, grudge’, from in- ‘into’ + videre ‘to see’."
}