word-vault/dist/data/cards/fu/fun.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "fun",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the feeling of enjoying yourself; activities that you enjoy",
            "sensetop": "for funit is fun doing something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We **had** a lot of **fun** at Sarah's party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sailing is **good fun**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was **great fun**! You should have come too."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That was **the most fun** I have had in years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Have fun!** *(= Enjoy yourself)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘What fun!’ she said with a laugh."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We won't let a bit of rain spoil our fun."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I decided to learn Spanish, just for fun.",
                    "contextForm": "for fun"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't do all that work just **for the fun of it**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's not much fun going to a party on your own.",
                    "contextForm": "it is fun doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's **no fun** getting up at 4  a.m. on a cold, rainy morning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Walking three miles in the pouring rain is **not my idea of fun**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The whole family can join in the fun at Water World."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘What do you say to a weekend in New York?’ ‘Sounds like fun.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I write for fun, not because I expect to make money."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was just plain fun."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Must you take all the fun out of everything?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She organized an annual fun day for local children."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That's when the real fun started!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The lottery provides harmless fun for millions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They took up motor racing just for the fun of it, rather than to win anything."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You're missing all the fun!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of the tourist entertainments may seem tacky, but they're all good, clean fun."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["enormous", "excellent", "good"],
                "verb + fun": ["be", "become", "get"],
                "fun + noun": ["day"],
                "preposition": ["for fun", "in fun", "fun  for"],
                "phrases": ["be no fun", "a bit of fun", "full of fun"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "behaviour or activities that are not serious but are meant to be enjoyed",
            "sensetop": "in fun",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's very lively and **full of fun**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We didn't mean to hurt him. It was just **a bit of fun**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You have to have a sense of fun to be a good teacher."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It wasn't serious—it was all done in fun.",
                    "contextForm": "in fun"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Games and toys"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["enormous", "excellent", "good"],
                "verb + fun": ["be", "become", "get"],
                "fun + noun": ["day"],
                "preposition": ["for fun", "in fun", "fun  for"],
                "phrases": ["be no fun", "a bit of fun", "full of fun"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be/become somebody that other people laugh at",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "activities that are not serious and that other people may think are bad",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Teaching isn't all fun and games, you know."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to laugh at somebody/something or make other people laugh at them, usually in an unkind way",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's cruel to make fun of people who stammer."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to say unkind things about somebody/something in order to make other people laugh at them",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her novels poke fun at the upper class."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She’s always poking fun at herself."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "ridicule",
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fʌn/",
                "audio": "fu/fun/fun__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fʌn/",
                "audio": "fu/fun/fun__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 17th cent. (denoting a trick or hoax): from obsolete fun ‘to cheat or hoax’, dialect variant of late Middle English fon ‘make a fool of, be a fool’, related to fon ‘a fool’, of unknown origin. Compare with fond."
}